Rıfat Ilgaz

Füsun Özbilgen: RIFAT ILGAZ TRANSFORMING SARROW TO LAUGHTER With 60 published books to his credit, Rifat Ilgaz must be one of Turkey's most prolific writers. The author of thousands of short stories, poems, novels, plays, memories and articles. The most famous of his humorous works is "Hababam Sinifi", about the teachers and pupils of a boys' boarding school. Rifat Ilgaz's identity card is older than the Turkish Republic. He was born in 1911 in the small picturesque town of Cide …