Reşat Nuri Güntekin

Reşat Nuri was born in November 1889 in Istanbul; his father, Nuri Bey, was a military doctor. A graduate of the faculty of letters of Istanbul in 1912, he taught French in Bursa, then literature in Istanbul high schools. A novel published in 1922 made him famous. He became an inspector of public education, then deputy for Çanakkale, and left for Paris in 1950 as Turkey's representative to UNESCO. He died of lung cancer in London, where he had gone for treatment, on 7 December 1956.

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• NovelFalling LeavesYaprak DökümüReşat Nuri Güntekin · 1930Literature