A01=Nazim Hikmet
Author_Nazim Hikmet
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Product details
- ISBN 9780856463297
- Weight: 332g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 05 Jan 2002
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Nâzim Hikmet’s 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, Talât Sait Halman, former Professor of Turkish Literature at Princeton and New York Universities and currently at Bilkent University, Ankara.
Nâzim Hikmet (1902–63), Turkey’s greatest modern poet, was a political prisoner in Turkey for more than fourteen years and spent the last thirteen years of his life in exile, mainly in Russia, travelling widely through Europe and further afield. Talât Sait Halman was born in 1931 in Istanbul. He is a well-known Turkish poet, translator and cultural historian. In 1971 he served as Turkey’s first ever Minister of Culture. He translates poetry and prose both from Turkish into English and vice versa. Richard McKane is a poet and the translator of Selected Poems of Anna Akhmatova and, with Elizabeth McKane, of Mandelstam’s The Moscow Notebooks and The Voronezh Notebooks. Anvil has published The Pillar of Fire, his selection from the poetry of Nikolay Gumilyov. He has jointly translated with Ruth Christie extensive selections from two Turkish poets, Poems of Oktay Rifat and Beyond the Walls by Nâzim Hikmet. For many years he worked as a human rights interpreter.
Ruth Christie was born and educated in Scotland. She studied Turkish at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. She has taught English literature and has been translating novels, short stories and poetry from the Turkish for many years. She has jointly translated with Richard McKane extensive selections from two Turkish poets, Poems of Oktay Rifat and Beyond the Walls by Nâzim Hikmet.
