Fatma Nezihe Araz (1920-2009) was a Turkish journalist, playwright, and poet. She was the daughter of banker and Member of Parliament Rifat (Rifʿat) Araz (1878-1964), who belonged to the inner circle of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938). She graduated in philosophy in 1946 from Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Psikoloji ve Felsefe Bölümü (Ankara University Faculty of Languages, History, and Geography, Department of Psychology and Philosophy), after which she worked as a journalist for a number of newspapers and periodicals. At first involved in Communism, she