About Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar: Turkish Writer (1901 – 1962)
Ahmed Hamdi Tampinar (23 June 1901 – 24 January 1962) was a Turkish poet, novelist, literary scholar and essayist, widely regarded as one of the most important representatives of modernism in Turkish literature. In addition to his literary and academic career, Tampinar served as a member of the Turkish Parliament from 1944 to 1946.
Early life and education
Tampinar was born in Constantinople on June 23, 1901, the youngest of three children. His father, Hüseyin Fikri Efendi, was a judge. Hüseyin Fikri Efendi is of Georgian descent and his family originated in the city of Masahel. Tanpınar’s mother, Nesime Bahriye Hanım, died of typhus in Mosul in 1915, when Tanpınar was thirteen years old.
As his father’s occupation required frequent relocations, Tampinar continued his education in several different cities, including Istanbul, Sinop, Siirt, Kirkuk and Antalya. After leaving the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, he completed his educational career at the Faculty of Letters of Istanbul University in 1923. While at the university, Tanpınar was tutored by Yahya Kemal, whose views deeply influenced the intellectual development and thinking of the students regarding aesthetics, literature, Turkish history and culture. Between 1921 and 1923, Tampinar published 11 poems in Dergâh, a literary journal founded by Yahya Kemal. In 1923 he graduated from Istanbul University after defending his thesis at Şeyhî. HüsrevüŞirina widely influential 15th-century masnavi, frequently re-written by various poets in subsequent periods, sometimes with titles fairhard u Şirin.
later life and work
After graduation, Tanpınar started teaching. Throughout his educational career, he taught in high schools in Erzurum (1923-24), Konya, Ankara, Istanbul, Ghazi Pedagogical Institute and the Academy of Fine Arts. At the Academy of Fine Arts, in addition to teaching literature, Tampinar taught the branch of aesthetics in art, art history and mythology (1932-39). As an educator, he sparked debate and a degree of controversy after advocating for the removal of Tanzimat’s previous literature from the national school curriculum in the 1930s. In 1939, despite not earning a Ph.D., Tampinar was appointed by the Minister of Education Hassan Ali User as the newly established professor of 19th-century Turkish literature in the Faculty of Literature of Istanbul University as the new professor of Turkish literature and was responsible for writing Post-Tanzimat Turkish Literature History.He published the study as nineteen. Asır Türk Edebiyatı Tarihi 1949.
The 1940s marked a productive period for Tanpınar. Bessehir (five cities1946), after the publication of his first novel, collected essays on the cities of Erzurum, Konya, Istanbul, Bursa and Ankara, Mahul Best 1944. Huzur (translated into English as Peace of mind) appeared in 1949 and Sahnenin Dışındakiler (person standing outside) 1950. These three novels together form a trilogy. In 1953 he made an extensive European tour over a six-month period, visiting many countries including France, Belgium, the Netherlands, England, Spain and Italy.
In 1954, Tampinar published Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsütranslate to time regulation instituteIn an often absurd and satirical style, with heavy use of symbolic imagery, the book explores topics such as Turkey’s difficult transition to modern society and the departure from old values (and sometimes rationality) it brings. Hiller (poetry), a selection of 37 poems by Tampinar from 74 poems published during his lifetime, published in 1961, the year before his death.
Political career
Between 1944 and 1946, Tampinar served as a member of the Turkish Grand National Assembly, representing Kahramanmaraş (then known as Maraş). He was a member of the Republican People’s Party (Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi), the only party with seats in parliament at the time.
death and legacy
Tampinar died of a heart attack in Istanbul on January 24, 1962, at the age of 60. His grave is located in Istanbul’s Aşiyan Cemetery, near the grave of his old mentor, Yahya Kemal.His epitaph has the first two lines of his poem Ne İçindeyim Zamanın:
Ne içindeyim zamanın
Ne de büsbütün dışında
(‘I’m not in time either
also didn’t get rid of it completely’)
Many of the works that Tampinar could not publish during his lifetime were released after his death. Although Tampinar does not write many novels, his collection of prose fiction has been widely studied by Turkish literary critics. The Istanbul Tampinar Literature Festival (ITEF) is named after Tampinar and has been held annually since 2009. The library of the Ahmed Hamdi Tampinar Literature Museum is located in Amino, Istanbul Turkish Literature Museum in Nu district, opened in 2011 by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
Turkish Bibliography
- Poetry: Hiller1961
- story: Abdullah Efendinin Rüyaları1943; Yaz Yamuru1955; Hikayel1983
- novel: Huzur 1949; Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü1962; Sahnenin Dışındakiler1973; Mahul Best1975; Aidaki Carden1987
- Essays: BeşŞehir, 1946; Yahya Kemal, 1967; Edbiat Uzerin Makarel, 1969;
- monograph: nineteen. Asır Türk Edebiyatı Tarihi1949; Teffik Ficklet1937
English bibliography
- Peace of mind (Huzur, Serial Fiction, 1948), trans. Erdağ Göknar (Archipelago Books, 2008). ISBN 0-9793330-5-9 (Stories of the people of Istanbul, set in the early days of World War II)
- time regulation institute (Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü, Serial Fiction, 1954), trans. Ender Gürol (Turkish Tatar Press, 2001). trans. By Alexander Dawe and Maureen Freely (December 31, 2013)
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