Acquire Second Annual Nazim Hikmet Poetry FestivalA Chapbook Of Talks And Poetry Prepared By Nâzım Hikmet Rendered As Publication

chapbook of the Second Annual Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival opens with the Festival's invited speaker, the renowned literary translator of Hikmet and a scholar of literature, Professor Mutlu Konuk Blasing of Brown University.
Her analysis, "Nazim Hikmet: The Forms of Exile" establishes important insights about Hikmet's poetry of exile as reflected in the poet's mixed use of traditional and free verse forms.
The rest of the chapbook is dedicated to poems submitted by the winners of the poetry competition, The competition received over five hundred poems from one hundred seventy poets representing places as far afield as Alaska and Malta.
The festival and the poetry competition were organized by American Turkish Association of North Carolina, The festival has taken place on April,in Cary, NC, The festival organizers were Buket Aydemir, Pelin Bali, Erdag Goknar, Mehmet C, Ozturk and Birgul Tuzlali. " Nazim Hikmet was born on January,in Salonika, Ottoman Empire now Thessaloníki, Greece, where his father served in the Foreign Service.
He was exposed to poetry at an early age through his artist mother and poet grandfather, and had his first poems published when he was seventeen.
Raised in Istanbul, Hikmet left Allied occupied Turkey after the First World War and ended up in Moscow, where he attended the university and met writers and artists from all over the world.
After the Turkish Independence inhe returned to Turkey, but was soon arrested for working on a leftist magazine.
He managed to escape to Russia, where he continued to write plays and poems, Ina general amnesty allowed Hikmet to return to Turkey, and during Nazim Hikmet was born on January,in Salonika, Ottoman Empire now Thessaloníki, Greece, where his father served in the Foreign Service.
He was exposed to poetry at an early age through his artist mother and poet grandfather, and had his first poems published when he was seventeen.
Raised in

Istanbul, Hikmet left Allied occupied Turkey after the First World War and ended up in Moscow, where he attended the university and met writers and artists from all over the world.
After the Turkish Independence inhe returned to Turkey, but was soon arrested for working on a leftist magazine.
He managed to escape to Russia, where he continued to write plays and poems, Ina general amnesty allowed Hikmet to return to Turkey, and during the next ten years he published nine books of poetryfive collections and four long poemswhile working as a proofreader, journalist, scriptwriter, and translator.
He left Turkey for the last time in, after serving a lengthy jail sentence for his radical acts, and lived in the Soviet Union and eastern Europe, where he continued to work for the ideals of world Communism.
After receiving early recognition for his patriotic poems in syllabic meter, he came under the influence of the Russian Futurists in Moscow, and abandoned traditional forms while attempting to “depoetize” poetry.
Many of his works have been translated into English, including Human Landscapes from My Country: An Epic Novel in Verse, Things I Didnt Know I Loved, The Day Before Tomorrow, The Moscow Symphony, and Selected Poems.
Inhe published Seyh Bedreddin destani “The Epic of Shaykh Bedreddin” and Memleketimden insan manzaralari “Portraits of People from My Land”.
Hikmet died of a heart attack in Moscow in, The first modern Turkish poet, he is recognized around the world as one of the great international poets of the twentieth century.
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