Fatma Aliye Topuz

Fatma Aliye Topuz , often known simply as Fatma Aliye or Fatma Aliye Hanm, was a Turkish novelist, columnist, essayist, womens rights activist and humanitarian. Although there was an earlier published novel by the Turkish female author Zafer Hanm in 1877, since that one remained her only novel, Fatma Aliye Hanm with her five novels is credited by literary circles as the first female novelist in Turkish literature and the Islamic world.

Fatma Aliye was born in Istanbul onOctober 1862. She was the second child of the leading Ottoman civil servant and renowned historian Ahmet Cevdet Pasha and his wife Adviye Rabia Hanm. She had two siblings a brother Ali Sedat and a sister Emine Semiye .

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