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Generous selection from Turkey's greatest modern poet, in superb English translations.
Nazim Hikmets poetry combines passion and simplicity with sophistication, producing work of enduring significance. He was both a superb narrative and lyric poet his immense and continuing popularity in Turkey testifies to his common touch. This extensive selection ranges from his epic poem Sheikh Bedreddin to the moving prison poems addressed to his wife. The book is introduced by the leading expert on Turkish literature, Talat Sait Halman, former Professor of Turkish Literature at Princeton and New York Universities and currently at Bilkent University, Ankara.…mehr

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Generous selection from Turkey's greatest modern poet, in superb English translations.
Nazim Hikmets poetry combines passion and simplicity with sophistication, producing work of enduring significance. He was both a superb narrative and lyric poet his immense and continuing popularity in Turkey testifies to his common touch. This extensive selection ranges from his epic poem Sheikh Bedreddin to the moving prison poems addressed to his wife. The book is introduced by the leading expert on Turkish literature, Talat Sait Halman, former Professor of Turkish Literature at Princeton and New York Universities and currently at Bilkent University, Ankara.
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Autorenporträt
Richard McKane is a poet and translator of poetry from Russian and Turkish. He lives and works in London. Ruth Christie was born and educated in Scotland. She has been translating novels, short stories and poetry from the Turkish for many years. Nazim Hikmet (1902-1963), Turkey's greatest modern poet, was a political prisoner in Turkey for eighteen years and spent the last thirteen years of his life in exile, travelling widely through Europe and further afield.