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Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar
Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar (1864–1944) was a Turkish novelist and playwright, the leading Turkish representative of realism and naturalism, known for novels of late Ottoman Istanbul life.
Oktay Akbal
Oktay Akbal (1923–2015) was a Turkish short-story writer, novelist, and columnist of the Republican era, known for autobiographical Istanbul fiction, plain poetic prose, and a daily Cumhuriyet column until 2014.
Peyami Safa
Peyami Safa (1899–1961), who also wrote as Server Bedii, was a Turkish novelist and journalist best known for Dokuzuncu Hariciye Koğuşu and Fatih-Harbiye and the Cingöz Recai detective series.
Reşat Nuri Güntekin
Reşat Nuri Güntekin (born Mehmet Reşat, 1889–1956) was a Turkish novelist and playwright best known for Çalıkuşu (1922), about a young Istanbul woman teaching in Anatolian villages.
Sabahattin Ali
Sabahattin Ali (1907–1948) was a Turkish novelist, poet, and educator, a major figure of Republican-era literature, best known for Kürk Mantolu Madonna and stories of Anatolian villagers and laborers.
Tarık Buğra
Tarık Buğra (Süleyman Tarık Buğra, 1918–1994) was a Turkish novelist, playwright, and journalist, best known for Küçük Ağa, a 1963 novel of the Turkish War of Independence.