Abdülhak Şinasi Hisar

Abdülhak Şinasi Hisar (March 14, 1887 in Istanbul – May 3, 1963 in Istanbul) was a Turkish writer.

He spent his childhood in Rumeli Hisarı and studied at the Galatasaray High School and later political sciences in Paris. Back to Ottoman Empire, he worked for a French company and later for Stines Mining Company and Regie des Tabacs.

Works

• Fahim Bey ve Biz (1941)
• Çamlıca’daki Eniştemiz (1944)
• Ali Nizami Bey’in Alafrangalığı ve Şeyhliği (1952)
• Boğaziçi Mehtapları (1942)
• Boğaziçi Yalıları (1954)
• Geçmiş Zaman Köşkleri (1956)
• Geçmiş Zaman Fıkraları (1958)
• Antoloji: Aşk imiş ..... (1955)
• İstanbul ve Pierre Loti (1958)
• Yahya Kemal’e Veda (1959)
• Ahmet Haşim : Şiiri ve Hayatı (1963)

Biographies and information

• Orhan Pamuk – İstanbul – Hatıralar ve Şehir, 2003
• Louis Mitler - Contemporary Turkish Writers, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1988
• Necmettin Turinay: Necmettin Turinay, 1988