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Süleyman Tarık Buğra (2 September 1918 – 26 February 1994) was a Turkish journalist, novelist and short story author. He was well-known author at Republican literature in his country. He was honoured as a State Artist in 1991. Buğra is the father of scientist Ayşe Buğra.
Buğra was born on 2 September 1918 in Akşehir, Konya, son of criminal judge Mehmet Nazım from Erzurum and Nazike from Akşehir. [1] His hometown was effective on Buğra's literatural identity. He preferred to signify this town in most of his works. [2] Buğra graduated from primary school and secondary school in the same town.
In the 1960s Buğra was part of the Club of the Enlightened ( Turkish: Aydınlar Kulübü) of which ideology was a synthesis of Turkism and Islamism. [3] The other major members of the group included Arif Nihat Asya, Kemal Ilıcak, Ali Fuat Başgil and Süleyman Yalçın. [3]