Sait Faik Abasıyanık

Died in 1954

Sait Faik was born in Adapazarı in November 1906, on the 23rd according to Britannica, on the 25th according to the Turkish Ministry of Culture. After the lycée in Bursa and studies in Istanbul, he stayed in France, chiefly in Grenoble, from 1931 to 1935. According to the ministry, he then taught briefly in an Armenian orphanage, tried his hand at the grain trade, and then lived on his father's support between the family house in Şişli and the one on the island of Burgaz, now a museum; cirrhosis was diagnosed in 1948. He died in Istanbul on 11 May 1954.

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Short storiesSemaverSait Faik Abasıyanık · 1936not translated into EnglishLiterature