He considered himself an outsider who rejected binary identifications of modernist versus traditionalist in Turkey’s intellectual life. He was heavily influenced by Turkish poet and novelist Yahya Kemal Beyatlı as well as French poet Paul Valéry. His two novels Huzur and Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü are considered among the best novels written in Turkish. Although he served as a deputy of the Republican People’s Party in the Grand National Assembly between 19, he mainly focused on his literary studies and worked as a professor of Turkish literature in Istanbul University until he died in 1962. He belonged to the first generation of teachers educated in the Republican period. He is considered to be one of the leading figures in modernist Turkish literature, writing five novels sixteen stories and many essays, letters, and diaries that constitute a rich resource for understanding the last century of the Ottoman Empire and the Early Republican Era.
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (b. 1901–d. 1962) was a Turkish novelist, poet, critic, and historian of literature.
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