Halide Nusret Zorlutuna

Halide Nusret Zorlutuna (1901 – 10 June 1984) was a Turkish poet and novelist.

Biography Zorlutuna was born in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire as the daughter of Mehmet Selim Bey, a journalist and political prisoner.

Married life lasted until the death of his wife 45 years later, their son Ergün was born in 1930 and their daughter Emine was born in 1938. After three years of teaching in Edirne, she was appointed to Istanbul Girls' High School and moved to Istanbul with her husband. The foundations of his friendship with Şükûfe Nihal were laid at this time. After teaching in Istanbul for seven years, he was appointed to Kars, requesting oriental service. Milli Mecmua, Türk Kadını, Kadın Dünyası, Aydabir, Salon Mecmuası, Çınaraltı, Çağrı, Hilal, Defne, Hisar, Ayşe, Töre, Süs and Türk Edebiyatı, and in the newspapers Vakit, Zafer, Kudret, Haber, Yeni İstanbul, Sabah, and Hürriyet. She aroused interest in the literary world with her work named Hanım Letters published in 1923. She started writing poetry during the armistice years. She joined the national literature movement with the effect and excitement of the Turkish War of Independence. Her poem "Git Bahar", which she wrote with national feelings, made her known. She adhered to the syllabic understanding in her poems evaluated in the national literature movement. She is known as one of the rare poets whose poems the famous poet Yahya Kemal memorized. There are also unstaged but published plays of Halide Nusret. The names of some of them are: Unremembering Governor, Veil and Cage, Leaf in the Wind, Who's Guilty?, True Love, Ali Usta's Grandchildren, Slum Roses.

Publications Poetry Geceden Taşan Dertler (Sorrow Flooding Off Night, 1930) Yayla Türküsü (Song of the Plateau, 1943) Yurdumun Dört Bucağı (Every Place of My Country, 1950) Ellerim Bomboş (My Hands Are Empty, 1967). Novels Küller (Ashes, 1921) Sisli Geceler (Misty Nights, 1922) Gülün Babası Kim (Who is the Father of Rose, 1933) Büyükanne (Grandmother, 1971) Aydınlık Kapı (The Bright Gate, 1974) Aşk ve Zafer (The Love and the Victory, 1978) Bir Devrin Romanı (Novel of an Age, 2004). Short stories Beyaz Selvi (The White Cypress, 1945). Letters Hanım Mektupları (Lady Letters, 1923). Autobiography Benim Küçük Dostlarım (My Little Friends, 1977).