Author · Azerbaijan
Almas Yildirim
Died in 1952
Almas Yildirim was born in Baku on 25 March 1907, into a family of wealthy merchants. Admitted to the faculty of Oriental literature at the University of Baku, he was expelled for his origins and ideas, then exiled to Dagestan; back in Baku, he saw his 1930 collection banned and was sent to Turkmenistan, where he ran a school. He fled to Iran, was arrested at the border, then reached Turkey, where he settled in eastern Anatolia. He died in Elazığ on 14 January 1952.
In the catalogue 1
- PoetryBoğulmayan bir sesAlmas Yildirim · 1936not translated into EnglishLiterature