title: Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar
text: Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar (August 17, 1864 – March 8, 1944) was a Turkish writer, civil servant, and politician.
  
  Biography
  Born in Istanbul, Gürpınar was the son of a family close to the Ottoman court. Having lost his mother at an early age, he was sent to Crete where his father was an Ottoman civil servant. However, he was soon sent back to Istanbul where he was brought up by his aunts and grandmothers in Constantinople.
  
  Gürpınar started writing fiction at an early age. He became a civil servant, then a writer and journalist. He later served as a member of the parliament in the early years of the Turkish Republic between 1935 and 1943.
  
  Selected books
   "Şık" (1889)
   "İffet" (1896)
   "Metres" (1900)
   "Tesadüf" (1900)
   "Şıpsevdi" (1911)
   "Nimetşinas" (1911)
   "Kuyruklu Yıldız Altında Bir İzdivaç" (1912)
   "Gulyabani" (1913)
   "Hakka Sığındık" (1919)
   "Efsuncu Baba" (1924)
   "Evlere Şenlik, Kaynanam Nasıl Kudurdu" (1927)
   "Namusla Açlık Meselesi" (1933)
   "Utanmaz Adam" (1934)
   "İki Hödüğün Seyahati" (1934)
   "Gönül Ticareti" (1939)
   "Melek Sanmıştım Şeytanı" (1943)
   "Dirilen İskelet" (1946)
   "Deli Filozof" (1964)
   "Kaderin Cilvesi" (1964)
   "Namuslu Kokotlar" (1973)
   "Shikure Babezu" (1974)
   Odevara.com – Gulyabani Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar
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   Edebiyatogretmeni.net – Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar
  
  1864 births
  1944 deaths
  Writers from Istanbul
  Republican People's Party (Turkey) politicians
  Deputies of Kütahya
  Novelists from the Ottoman Empire
  Turkish novelists
  Turkish magazine founders
  Members of the 8th Parliament of Turkey
  Members of the 7th Parliament of Turkey