Nazim hikmet biography
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Hikmet, Nazim
BORN: , Salonika, Greece
DIED: , Moscow, Russia
NATIONALITY: Turkish
GENRE: Poetry
MAJOR WORKS:
Seyh Bedreddin destani (The Epic of Sheik Bedreddin) ()
Memleketimden insan manzaralari (Human Landscapes) (–)
Things inom Didn't Know I Loved ()
Overview
Nazim Hikmet is posthumously considered one of the giants of twentieth-century Turkish literature, though his poems, plays, and prose were banned in his homeland during most of his lifetime.
Works in Biographical and Historical Context
Early Political Activism and Trouble Born in in Salonika, Greece (then under Turkish rule), Nazim Hikmet published his first poems when he was fifteen years old. In he went to the Soviet Union to study at the University of the Workers of the East and returned to Turkey in , when he joined the Turkish Communist Party as a supporter of the rights of farmers and workers. A year later, after publishing his first political poems, he was sentenced to fifteen years in p
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The Poet Of Hope
Kıymet Coşkun, 20 Nisan /Houston
To live like a tree, lonely and free
To live as brothers like trees in a forest,
This dream is ours!
Since January , in Turkey and many other parts of the world, Nâzım Hikmet is being celebrated through meetings, Theatrical events, concerts and exhibitions. His life style is being explained in every way to understand him better.
Our goal fryst vatten as Nâzım Hikmet&#;s friends, to bring out his life style, his art, his outlook of world and ideology as a whole, during these, events we participate
We know it is difficult to separate, Nâzım Hikmet&#;s superb poetry from his political views. We also know it will be wrong to accept him only as a poet and opposing his political believes and life style.
Nazım Hikmet passed almost 40 years ago. (Next year we will celebrate 40&#; anniversary of his passing). During his life he encountered heavy pressure. His books were outlawed. His poems were secretly distributed among his admirers • NAZIM HIKMET, popularly known and critically acclaimed in Turkey as the first and foremost modern Turkish poet, is known around the world as one of the greatest international poets of the twentieth century, and his poetry has been translated into more than fifty languages. Born in in Salonika, where his father was in the foreign service, Hikmet grew up in Istanbul. His mother was an artist, and his pasha grandfather wrote poetry; through their circle of friends Hikmet was introduced to poetry early; publishing first poems at seventeen. He attended the Turkish naval academy, but during the Allied occupation of Istanbul following the First World War, he left to teach in eastern Turkey. In , after a brief first marriage ended in annulment, he crossed the border and made his way to Moscow, attracted by the Russian Revolution and its promise of social justice. At Moscow University he got to know students and artists from all over the world. Hikmet returned to Turkey in , aft