List of Turkish writers

{{Short description|None}} {{Citations|date=November 2014}} This is a '''list of Turkish writers''' who are Ottoman or Turkish nationals and who write in Turkish language. {{dynamiclist}} {{horizontalTOC|nonum=yes|align=center}}

== A == * İhsan Oktay Anar, novelist, story writer (born 1960) * Sait Faik Abasıyanık, short story writer, novelist, poet (1906–1954) * Halide Edib Adıvar, novelist, scholar politician (1884–1964) * Agah Efendi, journalist (1832–1885) * Adalet Ağaoğlu, novelist and playwright (born 1929) * Süreyya Ağaoğlu, lawyer (1903–1989) * Zeynep Ahunbay, scholar (born 1946) * Munejjim-bashi Ahmed Dede, courtier, poet, historian (died 1702) * Ahmed Vefik Pasha, translator, playwright, statesman, dictionary writer, diplomat of Greek origin (1823–1891) * Hikmet Temel Akarsu, novelist, short story writer, playwright, satirist (born 1960) * Gülten Akın, poet (1933–2015) * Alev Alatlı, economist, philosopher, novelist, columnist (born 1944) * Sabahattin Ali, novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist (1903–1948) * Melih Cevdet Anday, poet (1915–2002) * Nezihe Araz, playwright, journalist, poet (1920–2009) * Duygu Asena, journalist, women's rights activist (1946–2006) * Nurullah Ataç, writer, poet and literary critic (1898–1957) * Meltem Arıkan, novelist and playwright (born 1968) * Yusuf Atılgan, novelist, short story writer and playwright (1921–1989) * Doğan Avcıoğlu, journalist, politician (1926–1983) * Şevket Süreyya Aydemir, historian, economist (1897–1976) * Behçet Aysan, physician and poet (1949-1993) * Samiha Ayverdi, Sufi mystic (1905–1993)

== B == * Vecihi Başarın, historian (born 1947) * Pelin Batu, actress, poet, historian (born 1978) * Enis Batur, poet, essayist, novelist, editor (born 1952) * Ataol Behramoğlu, poet, essayist, translator (born 1942) * Nazan Bekiroğlu, novelist (born 1957) * İlhan Berk, poet (1918–2008) * Asım Bezirci, critic, writer and poet (1927-1993) * Aydın Boysan, architect, scholar, essayist (born 1921) * Rıza Tevfik Bölükbaşı, philosopher, poet, politician (1869–1949) * Sevim Burak, playwright, poet (1931–1983) * Coşkun Büktel, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, critic (born 1950)

== C == * Edip Cansever, poet (1928–1986) * Abdullah Cevdet, poet, philosopher, translator (1869–1932)

== Ç == * Ece Ayhan Çağlar (1931–2002), poet * Semih Çalışkan (born 1986), novelist

== D == * Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, poet (1914–2008) * Radi Dikici, historian (1937-2021) * Ahmet Muhip Dıranas, poet and playwright (1909–1980) * Sulhi Dölek, satirist (1948–2005)

== E == * Erzurumlu Emrah (1775–1854), folk poet * Ercüment Ekrem Talu (1886–1956), humorist, journalist * Refik Erduran (1928–2017), playwright, journalist and writer * Mehmet Akif Ersoy (1873–1936), poet, scholar, writer of the Turkish National Anthem

== F == * Fitnat Hanım (died in 1780), poet

== G == * Müjdat Gezen, theatre actor and writer (born 1943) * Ziya Gökalp, sociologist, poet, political activist (1876–1924) * Reşat Nuri Güntekin, novelist, storywriter and playwright (1889–1956) * Osman Necmi Gürmen, novelist * Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar, writer and politician (1864–1944) * Deniz Goran, novelist (born 1974)

== H == * Kınalızâde Hasan Çelebi, poet and bibliographer (1546–1604) * Ahmet Haşim, poet (1884–1933) * Nazım Hikmet, poet, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director (1902–1963) * Abdülhak Şinasi Hisar, novelist and biographer (1887–1963) * Oktay Rıfat Horozcu, poet and playwright (1914–1988)

== I == * Rıfat Ilgaz, teacher, writer and poet (1911–1993)

== İ == * Attilâ İlhan, poet, novelist, journalist, essayist, reviewer (1925–2005)

== K == * Orhan Veli Kanık, poet (1914–1950) * Ceyhun Atuf Kansu, poet, author (1919–1978) * Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, novelist, journalist, poet (1889–1974) * Orhan Kemal, novelist (1914–1970) * Yahya Kemal, poet, author, politician and diplomat (1884–1958) * Yaşar Kemal, writer and human rights activist (1923–2015) * Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, poet, novelist, playwright (1904–1983) * Mehmet Fuat Köprülü, historian (1890–1966) * Ayşe Kulin, novelist and columnist (born 1941) * Pınar Kür, novelist, dramatist, and translator (1943–2025)

== M == * Aşık Mahzuni Şerif, folk musician, ashik, poet, composer (1940–2002) * Murathan Mungan, novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright (born 1955) * Emre Miyasoğlu, essayist and dramatist (born 1981)

== N == * Aziz Nesin, novelist, humorist, playwright, poet, short story writer (1915–1995) * Nedîm, poet (1681–1730) * Nef'i, poet and satirist (1572–1635) * Nergisî, prose writer (c. 1580–1635)

== O == * Celil Oker, crime fiction writer (1952–2019) * İsmet Özel, poet (born 1944)

== P == * Orhan Pamuk, novelist, screenwriter, scholar, Nobel laureate in Literature (born 1952) * Pir Sultan Abdal, poet (c. 1480–1550)

== S == * Peyami Safa, journalist, columnist and novelist (1899–1961)

== Ş == * Elif Şafak, author, columnist, speaker and academic (born 1971)

== T == * Kemal Tahir, novelist and intellectual (1910–1973) * Haldun Taner, playwright and short story writer (1915–1986) * Ercüment Ekrem Talu, writer, humorist and a journalist (1886–1956) * Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, poet, novelist, literary scholar and essayist (1901–1962) * Fatma Aliye Topuz, novelist, columnist, essayist (1862–1936)

==V== * Vedat Türkali, screenwriter, playwright, novelist (1919–2016)

== Y == * Yunus Emre, poet and mystic (1238–1320) * Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, poet (1869–1944)

== Z == * Halide Nusret Zorlutuna, poet and novelist (1901–1984)

==References== {{Reflist}}

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