Sait Faik Abasıyanık

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Sait Faik Abasıyanık was a pioneering 20th-century Turkish short story writer renowned for his lyrical, humanistic portrayals of everyday Istanbul life and marginalized characters.

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Sait Faik Abasıyanık canonical 2
Sait Faik 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Turkish writer
human
short story writer
writer
activePeriod 20th century
birthCountry Ottoman Empire
birthDate 1906-11-18
birthPlace Adapazarı
burialPlace Zincirlikuyu Cemetery
citizenship Turkey
deathCountry Turkey
deathDate 1954-05-11
deathPlace Istanbul
educatedAt Bursa Erkek Lisesi
Istanbul University
University of Grenoble
familyName Abasıyanık
genre novel
poetry
short story
givenName Sait Faik Abasıyanık self-linksurface differs
surface form: Sait Faik
hasAward Mark Twain Society honorary membership
influenced modern Turkish short story tradition
knownFor lyrical depictions of everyday Istanbul life
pioneering modern Turkish short story
portrayals of marginalized characters
languageOfWork Turkish
movement modern Turkish literature
name Sait Faik Abasıyanık self-link
nationality Turkish
notableWork Alemdağ’da Var Bir Yılan
Kayıp Aranıyor
Lüzumsuz Adam
Sarnıç
Semaver
Şahmerdan
occupation teacher
writer
residence Burgazada
Istanbul
subjectOf Sait Faik Abasıyanık Museum
writingStyle humanistic
impressionistic
lyrical
realist
wroteAbout Istanbul
fishermen
the poor and marginalized
workers

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Turkish literature notableAuthor Sait Faik Abasıyanık
Sait Faik Abasıyanık name Sait Faik Abasıyanık self-link
Sait Faik Abasıyanık givenName Sait Faik Abasıyanık self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Sait Faik