Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı

Cahit Sıtkı was born on 4 October 1910 in Diyarbakır, into a well-known family of the city. After the Galatasaray lycée and the school of political science, he went to study in Paris and returned in 1940 because of the war. A translator at the Anadolu news agency from 1944, he then worked at the Grain Office and the Ministry of Labour. He published three collections in his lifetime; his correspondence with a friend appeared after his death. Paralysed following an illness, he was treated in Vienna, where he died in October 1956.

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• PoetryOtuz beş yaşCahit Sıtkı Tarancı · 1946not translated into EnglishLiterature