Aziz Nesin
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| Born |
Mehmet Nusret 20 December 1915 Heybeliada, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 6 July 1995 (aged 79) Çeşme, Turkey |
| Nationality | Turkish |
| Occupation | Writer and humorist |
| Spouse(s) | Vedia Nesin (1939–1948) Meral Çelen (1956–1967) |
| Children | Oya (1940) Ateş (1942) Ali (1956) Ahmet (1957) |
| Parent(s) | Abdülaziz "Aziz" (Topalosmanoğlu family) & Hanife "İkbal" |
Aziz Nesin (pronounced [ˈaziz ˈne.sin ]; (born Mehmet Nusret, December 20, 1915 – July 6, 1995) was a Turkish writer and humorist who authored more than 100 books. Born in a time when Turks did not have official surnames, he had to adopt one after the Surname Law of 1934 was passed. Although his family carried the epithet "Topalosmanoğlu", after an ancestor named "Topal Osman", he chose the surname "Nesin". In Turkish, Nesin? means, What are you?.
Generally going by the name "Aziz Nesin", the name "Aziz" was originally his father's nickname, used by Nesin for the pseudonym under which he started publishing. He wrote under more than fifty noms de plume, such as the pseudonym "Vedia Nesin", his first wife's name, which he used for love poems published in the magazine Yedigün.
Nesin was of Crimean Tatar origin. He was born in 1915 on Heybeliada, one of the Princes' Islands of Istanbul, in the days of the Ottoman Empire. After serving as a career officer for several years, he became the editor of a series of satirical periodicals with a socialist slant. He was jailed several times and placed under surveillance by the National Security Service (MAH in Turkish) for his political views.
Nesin supposedly provided a strong indictment of the oppression and brutalization of the common man. He satirized bureaucracy and "exposed economic inequities in stories that effectively combine and universal truths". Aziz Nesin has been presented with numerous awards in Turkey, Italy, Bulgaria and the former Soviet Union. His works have been translated into over thirty languages. During latter parts of his life he was said to be the only Turkish author who made a living only out of his earnings from his books.
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