Who is Nazim Hikmet

Nâzım Hikmet Ran (15 January 1902 – 3 June 1963), commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet (Turkish: [naːˈzɯm hicˈmet] (listen)), was a Turkish-Polish poet, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director 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.

Family

According to Nâzım Hikmet, he was of paternal Turkish and maternal German, Polish, Georgian descent. Nâzım Hikmet's mother came from a distinguished, cosmopolitan family with predominantly Circassian (Adyghe) roots, along with high social position an...
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Nazim Hikmet Poems

• Lion In An Iron Cage
  Look at the lion in the iron cage,
  look deep into his eyes:
  like two naked steel daggers
  they sparkle with anger. ...
• Regarding Art
  Sometimes, I, too, tell the ah's
  of my heart one by one
  like the blood-red beads
  of a ruby rosary strung ...
• Our Eyes
  Our eyes
  are limpid
  drops of water.
  In each drop exists ...
• You
  You are my enslavement and my freedom
  You are my flesh burning like a raw summer night
  You are my country
  You are the green silks in hazel eyes ...
• Gioconda And Si-ya-u
  to the memory of my friend SI-YA-U,
  whose head was cut off in Shanghai
  
  A CLAIM ...

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Comments about Nazim Hikmet

• Jameshmeyer: for those who are interested, here you can read the prologue of red star over the black sea, my new biography of nâzım hikmet.
• Sevgistanbul: the most beautiful sea: hasn't been crossed yet. the most beautiful child: hasn't grown up yet. our most beautiful days: we haven't seen yet. and the most beautiful words i wanted to tell you i haven't said yet...nazim hikmet
• Astrotarotvirgo: "living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness..." on living by nazım hikmet ran on living - yaşamaya dair is a poem that is a big advise on life that needs to be thought about and taken into consideration seriously... the rest of the translation is in the
• Cesvanmuir: from the book poems of nazim hikmet
• Ferhatbaltali: where there is no sea, in the sake of hope human should be a seagull ... / ......... nazım hikmet, a turkish poet

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