- Sait Faik Story Gift is looking for its owner!
Applications have started for the Sait Faik Abasıyanık Story Award, which is organized in cooperation with the Darüşşafaka Society and Türkiye İş Bankası Cultural Publications in memory of Sait Faik Abasıyanık and is given to a storyteller every year.
The Sait Faik Story Gift, which has been organized for 69 years to keep the memory of master storyteller Sait Faik Abasıyanık alive, awaits all authors whose story books are published in 2022. The jury of the gift given to a storyteller every year is Doğan Hızlan (President) Hilmi Yavuz, Nursel Duruel, Prof. Dr. It consists of Jale Parla, Beşir Özmen, Metin Celal and Jale Özata Dirlikyapan.
By signing the ten (10) copies of the story book to be applied by the authors whose stories were published in 2022, the application petition and the Clarification Text on the Processing of Personal Data for the 69th Sait Faik Story Contest, by hand or to the Darüşşafaka Society until Monday, February 27, 17.00. It must be delivered by post. While the storybooks that will participate in the competition must not have received any awards before, authors who have won the same gift before cannot participate in the competition.
The short list of 10 short story books, which passed the preliminary evaluation, will be announced on Monday, April 17, and the result of the competition will be announced in May.
Sait Faik Abasıyanık Story Gift, won by writers such as Haldun Taner, Orhan Kemal, Necati Cumalı, Adalet Ağaoğlu, Ayşe Kulin, Selim İleri, Oya Baydar, Bilge Karasu, Mehmet Günsür, Yekta Kopan, last year Kamil with his short story book “Yok Yolcu”. It was given to Erdem.
Sait Faik Abasıyanık Story Gift
The Sait Faik Story Gift, which was started by the author’s mother Makbule Abasıyanık in 1955, has been maintained by the Darüşşafaka Society since 1964. The jury, composed of prominent literary masters of the period, chooses the best story book written that year and gives the “Sait Faik Abasıyanık Story Gift”.
The Sait Faik Story Award, which is given every year on the anniversary of the author’s death, on May 11, has been awarding works that give a breath of fresh air to the literary world since 2012, in cooperation with the Darüşşafaka Society and Türkiye İş Bankası Culture Publications.
Sait Faik and Darüşşafaka
Sait Faik, who participated in various literary matinees in the last days of his life, attends a literature matinee held at Darüşşafaka High School in 1954. Sait Faik, who visits the school after the matinee, takes care of and appreciates the children. When he returns home, he offers to his mother to donate his property to Darüşşafaka, which provides good opportunities for children whose father is dead.
Sait Faik’s mother, Makbule Hanım, donated most of her assets, copyrights of the author’s works and the mansion in Burgazada to the Darüşşafaka Society in her will, which she prepared on November 8, 1954, after the author’s death.
Darüşşafaka meticulously took care of this will, which was passed on to it in 1964, and assumed all the responsibilities of the museum house, which was opened to the public on 22 August 1959 under the name of Sait Faik Abasıyanık Museum, starting from 1964.
