Turkish Literature before Islam

Each Turkish clan constituted their own epic poems in order to spread their national characteristics at their oral tradition. Turkish Literature developed in Central Asia under the effect of Islam Civilization. The group of the Eastern Turkish Literature Group is composed of Karahanli Literature, Harizm - Altinordu Literature and Çagatay Literature. The Western Turkish is sampled with the Azerbaijani Literature.

Turkish Literature in Anatolia

Traditional Turkish Poets- Ozans

After the acceptance of Islam among the Turkish clans, a new point of view and a different literature altering in the scope of literary styles, poetry forms and different meters revealed among these clans. The traces of the old literature survived among the folk literature. The literature peculiar to the intellectuals was affected by the literature of Arabia and Persia.

Literature of the Republic Period

The Turkish oriented and nationalist intellectual young generation had affected the Literature of the Republic Period initially. Especially, the Turkish poetry, which had developed between years 1920-1940 in the same movement and social conditions, displayed the common properties with novels and stories.

Tevfik Fikret

The simplified language in the novels and stories are similarly used in the poetry with the same simplification and syllable meter. The common subject was the living of the folk of Anatolia. Although no Turkish writer won the Nobel Prize for Literature; Turkish Literature has developed drastically after the foundation of the Republic. Turkish writers and their works have been internationally appriciated. To meet the best sellers of Turkey, most popular and internationally rewarded Turkish authors and visit the most outstanding book fairs; we invite you to Turkey...