Nazim hikmet biography meaning

Mutlu Konuk Blasing
Persea Books ($27.95)

by Mark Gustafson

A revolutionary poet adept at epic, lyric, and didactic modes, Nâzım Hikmet gained international renown for his dedication to the common good—at great personal expense.

Nazim hikmet biography meaning

He continues to exemplify hope in the face of oppression, and his indomitable love of life remains an inspiration. Those of us who can’t read Turkish and who love modern literature are indebted to the efforts of scholar Mutlu Konuk and her husband, poet Randy Blasing, whose co-translations of Poems of Nâzım Hikmetand the epic Human Landscapes from My Country have done much to ensure Hikmet’s legacy in the English language.

Now Konuk’s biography takes us further, helping to fill in the background of this 20th-century giant’s essential work.

Born in 1902, into a family of the Ottoman upper class, the grandson of a Sufi poet and follower of Rumi, Hikmet began writing poems during his school years in Istanbul.

Still a teenager, he joined Atatürk’s for