Nâzım Hikmet

Nâzım Hikmet was born in Salonica, on 15 January 1902 according to turkedebiyati.org, on 30 November 1901 according to the Diyanet, the grandson of a pasha who was a governor. He left for Moscow in 1921, where he studied economics. In 1938 two military tribunals sentenced him to a term reduced to twenty-eight years; he spent more than twelve years in prison and regained his freedom in 1950, after a hunger strike and an amnesty law. Under threat, he left the country in 1951 and lost Turkish nationality the same year. He died in Moscow on 3 June 1963.

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• PoetryHuman Landscapes from My CountryMemleketimden İnsan ManzaralarıNâzım Hikmet · 1966Literature