Nâzım Hikmet Ran (January 15, 1902 – June 2, 1963), commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet (Turkish pronunciation: [ˈnaːzɯm ˈhikmɛt]), was a Turkish poet, playwright, novelist and memoirist. He was acclaimed for the "lyrical flow of his statements". Described as a "romantic communist" and "romantic revolutionary", he was repeatedly arrested for his political beliefs and spent much of his adult life in prison or in exile. His poetry has been translated in...
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Nâzım Hikmet Ran (January 15, 1902 – June 2, 1963), commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet (Turkish pronunciation: [ˈnaːzɯm ˈhikmɛt]), was a Turkish poet, playwright, novelist and memoirist. He was acclaimed for the "lyrical flow of his statements". Described as a "romantic communist" and "romantic revolutionary", he was repeatedly arrested for his political beliefs and spent much of his adult life in prison or in exile. His poetry has been translated into more than fifty languages.
He came from a cosmopolitan and distinguished family of Turkish, Polish and Circassian ancestry, his father Hikmet Bey was son of Mehmet Nazım Pasha and her mother Celile Hanım was granddaughter of Mehmet Ali Pasha. His maternal grandfather was of Polish origin and later converted to Islam, Mustafa Celaleddin Pasha (former Konstantin Polzokic-Borzecki 1826-1876) in Ottoman Empire and authored "Les Turcs anciens et modernes” in Istanbul, 1869 which considered one of the first works of national Turkist political...
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