Süleyman Tarık Buğra (2 September 1918 – 26 February 1994) was a Turkish journalist, novelist and short story author. He was well-known author at Republican literature in his country. He was honoured as a State Artist in 1991. Buğra is the father of scientist Ayşe Buğra.

Statue of Tarık Buğra in front of the National Library of Turkey

Biography

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Buğra was born on 2 September 1918 in Akşehir, Konya, son of criminal judge Mehmet Nazım from Erzurum and Nazike from Akşehir.[1] His hometown was effective on Buğra's literatural identity. He preferred to signify this town in most of his works.[2] Buğra graduated from primary school and secondary school in the same town.

In the 1960s Buğra was part of the Thinkers Club (Turkish: Aydınlar Kulübü) of which ideology was a synthesis of Turkism and Islamism.[3] The other major members of the group included Arif Nihat Asya, Kemal Ilıcak, Ali Fuat Başgil and Süleyman Yalçın.[3]

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Stories

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  • Oğlumuz (1949)
  • Yarın Diye Bir Şey Yoktur (1952)
  • İki Uyku Arasında (1954)
  • Hikâyeler (1964, yeni ilavelerle 1969)

Theatre plays

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  • Ayakta Durmak İstiyorum
  • Akümülatörlü Radyo
  • Yüzlerce Çiçek Birden Açtı (1979)

Travel memoirs

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  • Gagaringrad (Moskova Notları) (1962)

Essays

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  • Gençlik Türküsü (1964)
  • Düşman Kazanmak Sanatı (1979)
  • Politika Dışı (1992).
  • Bu Çağın Adı (1990)

Novels

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  • Siyah Kehribar (1955)
  • Küçük Ağa (1954)
  • Küçük Ağa Ankarada (1966)
  • İbiş'in Rüyası (1970)
  • Firavun İmanı (1976)
  • Gençliğim Eyvah (1979)
  • Dönemeçte (1980)[4]
  • Yalnızlar (1981)
  • Yağmur Beklerken (1981)
  • Osmancık (1973)
  • Dünyanın En Pis Sokağı (1989)

Scripts

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  • Sıfırdan Doruğa-Patron (1994)

References

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  1. ^ "Tarık Buğra". Yazarmezar.com. Archived from the original on 27 May 2013. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  2. ^ Tarık Buğra Kimdir? Biyografisi Biyografistan.com, Retrieved: 5 December 2016
  3. ^ a b Gulsum Gurbuz-Kucuksari (2020). "Kurdish skin, Turkish masks: Evdirrehîm Rehmîyê Hekarî's (Abdurrahim Zapsu) conflicting nationalisms". Turkish Studies. 21 (4): 615. doi:10.1080/14683849.2019.1682559.
  4. ^ Dönemeçte - Tarık Buğra.