| Nurullah Ataç | |
| Birth Name: | Nurullah |
| Birth Date: | 21 August 1898 |
| Birth Place: | Istanbul, Ottoman Empire |
| Death Place: | Istanbul, Turkey |
| Nationality: | Turkish |
| Education: | Law |
| Genre: | Literary critic |
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| Spouse: | Leman |
Nurullah Ataç (21 August 1898 – 17 May 1957) was a Turkish writer, poet and literary critic.
He was born on 21 August 1898 in Istanbul, then the capital of the Ottoman Empire. He studied in the Galatasaray High School and the Faculty of Letters of Istanbul University. After his father's death in 1921, he began serving as a French teacher in various schools in Istanbul. After the proclamation of the Turkish Republic he also served in Ankara and Adana. In 1926 he married Leman Ataç. He was appointed as an official translator of the presidency. He also served as the chairman of the media branch of the Turkish Language Association. Ataç contributed to several publications, including Yedigün.[1] and Adımlar.[2] He died on 17 May 1957 in İstanbul.[3] [4]
Ataç is known as a productive writer with an excellent memory. He translated more than 70 books to Turkish. He wrote essays and poems using modern Turkish words (see Modern Turkish). He was a champion of inverted sentences in his writings [3] In his critics he was often relentless. His books are the following:[4]