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Güntekin Reşat Nuri
(1889—1956)

Reşat Nuri Güntekin was a Turkish novelist, storywriter and playwright. His novel, El reyezuelo (1922) is about the destiny of a young Turkish female teacher in Anatolia. His narrative has a detailed and precise style, with a realist tone. His father was a major in the army. Reşat Nuri attended primary school in Çanakkale, the Çanakkale Secondary School and the İzmir School of Freres. He graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Literature in 1912. He worked as a teacher and administrator at high schools in Bursa and Istanbul, then as an inspector at the Ministry of National Education (1931). He served as the deputy of Çanakkale between 1933 and 1943 in the Turkish Parliament, the chief inspector at the Ministry of National Education (1947), and a cultural attaché to Paris (1950), when he was also the Turkish representative to UNESCO. After his retirement, he served at the literary board of the Istanbul Municipal Theatres. He died in London, where he had gone to be treated for his cancer. He is buried at the Karacaahmet Cemetery in İstanbul.

Turkey, 1965, Reşat Nuri Güntekin