[1] Established by Yaşar Nabi Nayır, Sabri Esat Siyavuşgil, and Nahit Sırrı Örik in 1933, it often publishes poetry and works of famous Turkish poets and writers.
[3] The other founders include Yaşar Nabi Nayır and Nahit Sırrı Örik.
Most Turks who have become famous in literature have become so through publishing their works in Varlık, such as Sait Faik Abasıyanık.
Significant contributors include Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı, Orhan Veli Kanık, Nurullah Ataç, Ziya Osman Saba, Oktay Akbal, Mahmut Makal, Necati Cumalı, Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Behçet Necatigil, Cahit Külebi, Orhan Kemal, Haldun Taner and Tahsin Yücel.
[3] The magazine also introduced Turkish translations of works by Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Gogol, Kafka, Tolstoy, Steinbeck, Hemingway, Balzac, Malraux, Zola, Gide, Camus and Sartre.