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Sait Faik Abasıyanık

1906 - 1954

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Sait Faik Abasıyanık (18 November 1906 – 11 May 1954) was one of the greatest Turkish writers of short stories and poetry and considered an important literary figure of the 1940s. He created a brand new style in Turkish literature and brought new life to Turkish short story writing with his harsh but humanistic portrayals of labourers, fishermen, children, the unemployed, and the poor. His stories focused on the urban lifestyle and he portrayed the denizens of the darker places in Istanbul. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sait Faik Abasıyanık is the 2,768th most popular writer (down from 2,700th in 2019), the 834th most popular biography from Türkiye (down from 818th in 2019) and the 82nd most popular Turkish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sait Faik Abasıyanık ranks 2,768 out of 7,302. Before him are Gustave Kahn, Leonard Woolf, Unica Zürn, Robert James Waller, Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, and Giacomo da Lentini. After him are Neil Postman, Alexandra Ripley, Heinrich Hoffmann, Jonas Jonasson, Fleur Jaeggy, and Ben Hecht.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Sait Faik Abasıyanık ranks 149. Before him are Jim Thompson, Jim Bausch, Artur Lundkvist, Andrei Kirilenko, Betti Alver, and Francisco Ayala. After him are Alec Issigonis, William Joyce, Joan Hickson, Tribhuvan of Nepal, Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov, and Raymond Sommer. Among people deceased in 1954, Sait Faik Abasıyanık ranks 66. Before him are William Hoyt, Onofre Marimón, Claude Cahun, Herms Niel, Wilhelm Brückner, and Clyde Cessna. After him are Pat McDonald, Henri Laurens, Hugo Eckener, Frans G. Bengtsson, Robert H. Jackson, and Samuel Jones.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Sait Faik Abasıyanık ranks 834 out of 1,347. Before him are Cleostratus (-520), Audoin (541), Idris Bitlisi (1452), Çiçek Hatun (1431), Babylas of Antioch (238), and George Mouzalon (1220). After him are Kekaumenos (1020), Alec Issigonis (1906), Stephen I of Constantinople (867), Euphorbus (null), Aristides Quintilianus (150), and Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha (1667).

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Among WRITERS In Türkiye

Among writers born in Türkiye, Sait Faik Abasıyanık ranks 82. Before him are Theodore Abu Qurrah (750), Timotheus of Miletus (-450), Polemon I of Pontus (-65), John of Ephesus (507), Antimachus (-400), and Idris Bitlisi (1452). After him are Kekaumenos (1020), Theodore Prodromos (1115), Aristeas (-600), Parthenius of Nicaea (-1), Fatma Aliye Topuz (1862), and Xanthus (-500).

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