Nazim Hikmet
Nazim Hikmet
Nâzım Hikmet 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 "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...
NationalityTurkish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth15 January 1902
CityThessaloniki, Greece
CountryTurkey
Of course you'll live, red-haired lady of my heart: in the twentieth century grief lasts at most a year.