Istanbul Boy = Böyle Gelmiş, Böyle Gitmez = That's How It Was But Not How It's Going to Be: the Autobiography of Aziz Nesin / Uniform Böyle Gelmiş, Böyle Gitmez. English

Austin: Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 1977. Octavo in dark green illus stiff paper wraps; 227p. Very tight, clean near fine(-) with minor rubbing and foxing to front wrap verso and front free endpaper recto; neat dog-ear fold crease to a sihngle rear leaf. Appears to be unread. Paperback. ISBN: 0292738102

In English. Turkey’s foremost satirist (1915–1995), born Mehmet Nusret on Heybeliada in the Princes’ Islands and trained as an army officer before turning to journalism. He wrote under more than fifty pen names. “Nesin,” Turkish for “What are you?”, is the one that stuck. Co-founded the satirical weekly Markopaşa (1946), which the authorities shut down repeatedly, and served several prison terms for his writing. Author of more than 100 books (stories, novels, plays, memoirs) skewering bureaucracy, petty officialdom, poverty and political cant. Twice winner of the Golden Palm humor prize at Bordighera, among other international honors. President of the Turkish Writers’ Union 1975–89; led the 1984 Intellectuals’ Petition against the military regime. Founded the Nesin Foundation for destitute children in 1972, later deeding it every copyright to his work. An outspoken atheist, he began publishing his translation of Rushdie’s Satanic Verses in 1993. That July he narrowly escaped the mob arson of the Madımak Hotel in Sivas, in which 37 died. Buried without ceremony in an unmarked spot on Foundation land.Middle East monographs; no. 3. Contents: 1. Böyle gelmis, böyle gitmez (That's how it was but not how it's going to be) -- pt. 2 Yol (The path) -- pt. 3. Yokuşun Başi (The climb).;Écrivains turcs -- 20e siècle -- Biographies. Authors, Turkish Authors, Turkish -- 20th century -- Biography