Sabahattin Ali

Died in 1948

Sabahattin Ali was born on 25 February 1907 in Eğridere, today Ardino, in Bulgaria; his father was an officer. He studied for two years in Germany, at Potsdam, on a state scholarship, then taught German in Aydın and Konya. Arrested for a poem aimed at the leaders, he was imprisoned in Sinop, then released under the amnesty of the tenth anniversary of the Republic. He then joined the Ministry of Public Instruction, translated Sophocles and Hebbel, and in 1946 launched the satirical weekly Marko Paşa. He was killed near the Bulgarian border in early April 1948.

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Short storiesDeğirmenSabahattin Ali · 1935not translated into EnglishLiterature