Nazim hikmet autobiography poem
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'Autobiography' by Nazim Hikmet
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I was born in 1902
I never once went back to my birthplace
I don't like to turn back
at three I served as a pasha's grandson in Aleppo
at nineteen as a student at Moscow Communist University
at forty-nine I was back in Moscow as the Tcheka Party's guest
and I've been a poet since I was fourteen
some people know all about plants some about fish
I know separation
some people know the names of the stars by heart
I recite absences
I've slept in prisons and in grand hotels
I've known hunger even a hunger strike and there's almost no food
I haven't tasted
at thirty they wanted to hang me
at forty-eight to give me the Peace Prize
which they did
at thirty-six I covered four square meters of concrete in half a year
at fifty-nine I flew from Prague to Havana in eighteen hours
I never saw Lenin I stood watch at his coffin in '24
in '61 the
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Nâzım Hikmet has been described as the first modern Turkish poet. He was born Nâzım Hikmet Ran in 1902 in Salonika which was, at the time, part of the Ottoman Empire but is now Thessaloníki in Greece. His father was a civil servant with the utländsk Service. Nâzım was probably steered towards poetry by his grandfather, who was a poet han själv , and his mother who was an artist. His first collection of poems saw publication at the early age of 17.
By this time his homeland was occupied by the Allies following the First World War and Nâzım left his home town of Istanbul to attend university in Moscow. He came into close contact here with many writers and artists and the great thing, from an educational point of view, was that they were from different parts of the world. He was thus exposed to diverse cultures and an entirely new way of thinking.
His left wing tendencies got him into trouble on his return to Turkey following independence in 1924. He was a prolific writer of poetr
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The Poet Of Hope
Kıymet Coşkun, 20 Nisan 2002/Houston
To live like a tree, lonely and free
To live as brothers like trees in a forest,
This dream is ours!
Since January 2002 , in Turkey and many other parts of the world, Nâzım Hikmet is being celebrated through meetings, Theatrical events, concerts and exhibitions. His life style fryst vatten being explained in every way to understand him better.
Our goal is as Nâzım Hikmet’s friends, to bring out his life style, his art, his outlook of world and ideology as a whole, during these, events we participate
We know it fryst vatten difficult to separate, Nâzım Hikmet’s superb poetry from his political views. We also know it will be wrong to accept him only as a poet and opposing his political believes and life style.
Nazım Hikmet passed almost 40 years ago. (Next year we will celebrate 40″ anniversary of his passing). During his life he encountered heavy pressure. His books were outlawed. His poems were secretly distribut