Background
His father was a medical doctor Doktor Nuri Bey.
Diplomat novelist playwright politician writer
His father was a medical doctor Doktor Nuri Bey.
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.
His best known novel, Çalıkuşu ("The Wren", 1922) is about the destiny of a young Turkish female teacher in Anatolia. A movie was filmed on this book in 1966, a television series were produced in 1986 and an update version of the television series was made in 2013. His narrative has a detailed and precise style, with a realistic tone.
His other significant novels include Yeşil Gece ("The Green Night") and Yaprak Dökümü ("The Fall Of Leaves") He worked as a teacher and administrator at high schools in Bursa and Istanbul, he taught literature, French and philosophy.
Then he worked 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 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. After his retirement, he served at the literary board of the Istanbul Municipal son
He died in London, where he had gone to be treated for his lung cancer. He is buried at the Karacaahmet Cemetery in Istanbul.