Sait Faik Abasıyanık

He also explored the "..torments of the human soul and the agony of love and betrayal.."

• Name — Sait Faik Abasıyanık • Born — 18 November 1906 • Birthplace — Adapazarı, Ottoman Empire • Died — 11 May 1954 • Place of death — Istanbul, Turkey • Occupation — Short story writer • Nationality — Turkish • Language — Turkish • Parents — Makbule Abasıyanık Mehmet Faik Abasıyanık

• Illustration — His home in Burgazada, now the Sait Faik Museum • Illustration — Grave of Sait Faik Abasıyanık and his mother Makbule Born in Adapazarı, on 18 November 1906, he was educated at Istanbul Lisesi in Istanbul and then in Bursa. He enrolled in the Turcology Department of Istanbul University in 1928, but under pressure from his father went to Switzerland to study economics in 1930. He left school and lived from 1931 to 1935 in France (mainly Grenoble) – an experience which had a deep impact on his art and character. After returning to Turkey he taught Turkish in Halıcıoğlu Armenian School for Orphans, and tried to follow his father's wishes and go into business but was unsuccessful. At this time he also began to publish his pieces in Varlık, a national periodical. In 1936, he published his first book of short stories, Semaver. The majority of his work consisted of short stories; however, in 1952 he wrote a novel, Bir Takım Insanlar, which was censored due to its portrayal of the class system. A major theme of his was always the ocean and he spent most of his time in Burgazada (one of the Princes' Islands in the Marmara Sea). He became an honorary member of the International Mark Twain Society of St. Louis, Missouri on 14 May 1939. A number of researchers and critics, with a view to Sait Faik's last stories, have claimed that he tended towards surrealism. The themes of those last stories and their language and narrative deeply affected the post-1950 writers in particular through these changes. Because of the originality of his style, he has been considered as the source of himself. He died on 11 May 1954 in Istanbul. Sait Faik mostly published under the name Sait Faik, other pen names being Adalı ("Island dweller"), Sait Faik Adalı, and S. F..

Sait Faik Abasıyanık was recorded at birth as Mehmet Sait Abasıyanık. His recorded languages were French and Turkish. He was the child of Mehmet Faik Abasıyanık and Makbule Abasıyanık. Other recorded relations include Ahmet Faik Abasıyanık.

Sait Faik Abasıyanık is recorded as poet, novelist and writer.