Sait Faik Abasıyanık Selected Stories - Sait Faik Abasıyanık 9786053607243

ContentsStelyanos Chrysopulos Ship Spring Washing Lines and Don Shirt Ghosts What Do I Do? Poolside Uzun Ömer Open Air Hotel at Queen's House A Man Who Doesn't Know Tooth and Toothache A Spring Story Hazelnut Eftalikus's Coffee Sinagrit Baba Last Birds Nights in Sivriada Morning in Sivria A Point on the Map Like a Rock Piece Hush, Hush!.. Death of Carpenter Fish In this book The warm stories of Sait Faik, filled with the smell of the sea, the sounds of children, fishermen's conversations, seagulls and all kinds of fish, were brought together. Selected Stories are included in the 100 Basic Works determined by the Ministry of National Education for primary school students. Sait Faik Abasıyanık was born on November 18, 1906 in Adapazarı. After completing his primary education at the Directory-i Terakki School, he enrolled in İlstanbul Boys' High School in 1925. Due to the disciplinary punishment he received, he had to complete his secondary education at Bursa High School for Boys (1928). He studied Turcology at Istanbul Darülfünunu (University) for a while (1928). At the request of his father, Mehmet Faik, he went to Switzerland to study economics. He left Lausanne in a short time and moved to Grenoble, France, and stayed in France between 1931 and 1935. When he returned to Istanbul, he taught Turkish at the Halıcıoğlu Armenian Orphan School for a short time. He started to run the wholesale grain store that he opened at the insistence of his father, but after this failed attempt, he decided to make a living just by writing. He lost his father in 1939 and started to live with his mother Makbule Hanım in their house in Burgazada. During the Second World War, he worked as a court reporter for Haber newspaper for a month (1942). He was elected an honorary member of the Mark Twain Society in America "for his services to modern literature" (1953). He succumbed to cirrhosis, which he had been struggling with for a long time, on May 11, 1954. More than 100 stocks were offered to be sold at the campaign price.