Mehmed Nâzım Ran, commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet, was a Turkish poet, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director, and memoirist. He was acclaimed for the "lyrical flow of his statements". Described as a "romantic communist" and a "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 50 languages.
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar was a Turkish poet, novelist, literary scholar and essayist, widely regarded as one of the most important representatives of modernism in Turkish literature. In addition to his literary and academic career, Tanpınar was also a member of the Turkish Parliament between 1944 and 1946.
Ahmet Yalçınkaya is a Turkish poet and academician.
Melih Cevdet Anday was a Turkish writer whose poetry stands outside the traditional literary movements. He also wrote in many other genres which, over six and a half decades, included eleven collections of poems, eight plays, eight novels, fifteen collections of essays, several of which won major literary awards. He also translated several books from diverse languages into Turkish.
Mehmet Emin Yurdakul was a Turkish nationalist writer, poet and politician. Being an ideologue of Pan-Turkism, his writings and poems had a major impact on defining the term vatan (Fatherland).
Ahmet Kutsi Tecer was a Turkish poet and politician.
Cahit Külebi was a leading Turkish poet and author. He has an important place in contemporary Turkish poetry due to his attachment to folk poetry traditions. His poetry is enriched with simple yet ironic language, embellished with original descriptions.
Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, born Ahmet Âgâh, generally known by the pen name Yahya Kemal, was a leading Turkish poet and author, as well as a politician and diplomat.
Ahmet Muhip Dıranas was a leading Turkish poet and writer.
Ataol Behramoğlu is a prominent Turkish poet, author, and Russian-into-Turkish literary translator.
Lale Müldür is a Turkish poet and writer.
Nurduran Duman is a Turkish poet, writer, translator, editor, culture & art journalist.
Ivan Hristov or Ivan Christoff is a Bulgarian poet, and critic.
Mehmet Hakkı Suçin is an author, literary translator and Arabist from Turkey.
Kristin Dimitrova, a Bulgarian writer and poet, was born in Sofia on May 19, 1963. Graduated in English and American Studies from the Sofia University, she now works there at the Department of Foreign Languages. From 2004 to 2006, she was editor of Art Trud, the weekly supplement for arts and culture of the Trud Daily, and in 2007-2008 was a columnist for Klasa Daily Since 2008 she has been a regular participant on the Darik Radio Friday talk show The Big Jury.
Ahmet Selçuk İlkan is a Turkish poet and songwriter.
Zekai Özger, better known under his pen name Arkadaş Z. Özger, was a young Turkish poet.
Emel Emin is a Romanian Crimean Tatar poet, translator, Turkologist, and educator. She writes her work in Turkish. Although most of her poetry is free verse, she sometimes uses syllabic verse and she admires Arabic prosody. With love for traditional forms of poetry she also published ghazal and rubayat. She is associated with the Writers' Union of Romania and Turkish Language Association in Turkey.
Fakir Baykurt or born Tahir Baykurt was a Turkish author and trade unionist.
Özdemir Asaf was one of the prominent Turkish poets during the early Republican period.
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