Nâzım Hikmet
Biography
Nâzım Hikmet was born Nâzım Hikmet Ran in Salonica in 1902. His father was an Ottoman government official. In 1918, he graduated from the Ottoman Naval School. He briefly served on a cruiser but fell ill and was excused naval service. He and a friend later joined the Turkish war of Independence, where they met Mustafa Kemal. The two friends wrote a poem inspiring the troops and, as a result, they got jobs as teachers. However, they had to leave because of their Communist views. Hikmet was arrested for working on a leftist magazine but he escaped and went to Georgia to witness the Russian Revolution. He studied economics and was influenced by Lenin and other Soviets, including young Soviet poets.
Back in Turkey, he started writing poetry and soon became a leading avant-garde poet, dramatist and scriptwriter. In 1938 , he was sentenced to 28 years and four months’ imprisonment for trying to incite the army to revolt. He was released in an amnesty and finally left Turkey in 1951, living in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. He died in Moscow in 1963. He is considered one of the major Turkish poets and his works have been set to music and translated into many languages. He also wrote two novels.
Books about Nâzım Hikmet
Mutlu Konuk Blasing: Nâzım Hikmet: The Life and Times of Turkey’s World Poet
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Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet regains citizenship
Some of his poems
Bibliography
1925 Dağların Havası
1928 Güneşi İçenlerin Türküsü
1929 835 Satır
1929 Jokond ile Si-Ya-U
1930 Varan 3
1930 1 + 1 = 1
1931 Sesini Kaybeden Şehir
1932 Gece Gelen Telgraf
1932 Benerci Kendini Niçin Öldürdü?
1932 Bir Ölü Evi yahut Merhumun Hanesi
1932 Kafatası (drama)
1932 Orman Cücelerinin Sergüzeşti
1934 Unutulan Adam (drama)
1935 Portreler
1935 Taranta Babu’ya Mektuplar (Letters to Taranta-Babu : a poem)
1936 Simavne Kadısı Oğlu Şeyh Bedreddin Destanı (The Epic of Sheik Bedreddin and Other Poems)
1936 İt Ürür Kervan Yürür Orhan Selim adıyla)
1936 Milli Gurur
1936 Sovyet Demokrasisi
1936 Alman Faşizmi ve Irkçılığı
1937 Kurtuluş Savaşı Destanı
1938 Yeşil Elmalar
1949 La Fontaine’den Masallar
1954 Poems of Nazim Hikmet
1964 Yaşamak Güzel Şey Be Kardeşim (Life’s Good, Brother) (novel)
1965 Saat 21-22 Şiirleri
1965 Enayi
1965 Ferhad ile Şirin (drama)
1965 İnek
1965 İstasyon
1965 Kan Konuşmaz (novel)
1965 Şu 1941 Yılında
1965 Yolcu
1966 Yaşamak Hakkı
1966 Bu Bir Rüyadır
1966 Ocak Başında
1966 Rubailer
1966 Sabahat
1966-1967 Memleketimden İnsan Manzaraları (Human Landscapes)
1967 Selected Poems
1967 Allah Rahatlık Versin
1967 Evler Yıkılınca
1967 İnsanlık Ölmedi ya
1967 Yusuf ile Menofis
1967 Cezaevinden Memet Fuat’a Mektuplar
1968 Kemal Tahir’e Mapushaneden Mektuplar
1968 Kuvâyi Milliye
1968 Sevdalı Bulut
1969 Yeni Şiirler 1951-1959
1969 Son Şiirleri 1959-1961
1970 Bursa Cezaevinden Vâ’Nû’lara Mektuplar
1970 The Moscow Symphony and other Poems
1971 İlk Şiirleri 1913-1927
1972 The Day Before Tomorrow; Poems
1974 Demokles’in Kılıcı
1975 Things I Didn’t Know I Loved : Selected Poems
1975 Faşizm Sınıflar ve Emperyalizm
1975 Nâzım ile Piraye
1976 Aydınlıkçı Yazar Aydınlıkçı Şair
1976 Yazılar
1985 İvan İvanoviç Var mıydı Yok muydu?
1986 Selected Poetry
1987 Çeviri Hikâyeler
1990 Her Şeye Rağmen
1990 Kadınların İsyanı
1990 Kör Padişah
1990 Tartüf-59
1990 Yalancı Tanık
1991 Hikâyeler
1991 Konuşmalar
1991 Masallar
1991 Sanat, Edebiyat, Kültür, Dil
1991 Yatar Bursa Kalesinde
1991 Yazılar 1924-1934
1991 Yazılar 1935
1991 Yazılar 1936
1991 Yazılar 1937-1962
1994 Poems of Nazim Hikmet
1998 Piraye’ye Mektuplar 1
1998 Piraye’ye Mektuplar 2
1998 Sanat ve Edebiyat Üstüne
2001 Nâzım Hikmet Şarkıları
2002 Bizim Radyoda Nâzım Hikmet
2002 Beyond the Walls : Selected Poems
2007 Bütün Şiirleri
2008 Henüz Vakit Varken Gülüm
2008 Öteki Defterler
2010 Çankırıdan Piraye’ye Mektuplar
2011 Büyük İnsanlık
2017 Nâzım’ın Cep Defterlerinde Kavga, Aşk ve Şiir ı (1937 – 1942)