Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı

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Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı (17 April 1890, Crete - 13 October 1973, İzmir) (birth name Musa Cevat Şakir; pen-name exclusively used in his writings, "The Fisherman of Halicarnassus"; "Halikarnas Balıkçısı" in Turkish) was a Turkish writer of novels, short-stories and essays, as well as being a keen ethnographer and travelogue.

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[edit] Biography

He is deeply associated with Bodrum where he started to live as of 1927 by reason of a sentence of three-years' exile and, fallen under the spell of the town, ended up by spending the remaining part of his life as based there, whence his pen-name in reference to Halicarnassus, name of the city in antiquity. He is largely credited for bringing the formerly sleepy fishing and sponge-diving town of Bodrum, as well as the entire shoreline of the Blue Cruise, to the attention of the Turkish intelligentsia and the reading public first, and by extension, for paving the way towards the formation of international tourist attraction the region became.

An erudite, a colorful and multi-faceted personality and an inquisitive mind, Cevat Şakir deeply marked the 20th century evolution of intellectual ideas in Turkey and remains a primary and popular figure of reference.

[edit] Works

[edit] Short stories

  • Ege Kıyılarından (1939)
  • Merhaba Akdeniz (1947)
  • Ege’nin Dibi (1952)
  • Yaşasın Deniz (1954)
  • Gülen Ada (1957)
  • Ege’den (1972)
  • Gençlik Denizlerinde (1973)
  • Parmak Damgası (1986)
  • Dalgıçlar (1991)
  • Gündüzünü Kaybeden Kuş

[edit] Novels

  • Aganta Burina Burinata (1945)
  • Ötelerin Çocuğu (1956)
  • Uluç Reis (1962)
  • Turgut Reis (1966)
  • Deniz Gurbetçileri (1969)

[edit] Essays

  • Anadolu Efsaneleri (1954)
  • Anadolu Tanrıları (1955)
  • Mavi Sürgün (self-biography, 1961)
  • Anadolu’nun Sesi (analysis, 1971)
  • Hey Koca Yurt (1972)
  • Merhaba Anadolu (1980)
  • Düşün Yazıları (1981)
  • Altıncı Kıta Akdeniz (1982)
  • Sonsuzluk Sessiz Büyür (1983)
  • Çiçeklerin Düğünü (1991)
  • Arşipel (1993)

[edit] Points

  • On one occasion in 1950, "the Fisherman of Halicarnassus" also starred in a minor role in a movie, under the screen name "Cevat Şakir Kabaağaç" [1]

[edit] See also

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ IMDb file: Yüzbaşı Tahsin (Captain Tahsin) (English). International Movie Database.

[edit] References

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