Zeyyat Selimoğlu

Zeyyat Selimoğlu was a Turkish short-story writer and translator. Born in Istanbul on 31 March 1922, he was educated at the German High School in the city and graduated from the law faculty of Istanbul University, but left the legal profession to devote himself to writing and translation.

He translated chiefly from German, bringing writers such as Heinrich Böll and Siegfried Lenz into Turkish. His own story collections include Kavganın Sonu ve Başı (1955), Direğin Tepesinde Bir Adam (1969), Koca Denizde İki Nokta (1973), Gemi Adamları (1984) and Derin Dondurucu İçin Öykü (1995), and he published the novel Tutkunun Köşeleri in 1982.

He received the Yunus Nadi Prize, the Sait Faik Short Story Award in 1970 and the Haldun Taner Short Story Award in 1994. He died in Istanbul in 2000.