Melih Cevdet Anday

Melih Cevdet Anday was born in 1915, in Çanakkale according to the Küre encyclopaedia, in Istanbul according to turkedebiyati.org and the Turkish government's cultural portal. At the lycée in Ankara, he became close to the two classmates with whom he would launch a poetic movement in 1941. He stayed in Belgium, returned before the war, worked in Ankara in the press administration and in a library, then as a journalist. In Istanbul, he taught diction at the municipal conservatory from 1954 and wrote columns. An author of poems, novels, plays and translations, he died in Istanbul on 28 November 2002.

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• PoetryYanyanaMelih Cevdet Anday · 1956not translated into EnglishLiterature