Oktay Rifat

Oktay Rifat was born on 10 June 1914 in Trabzon, of which his father, the poet Samih Rifat, was then governor. At the lycée in Ankara, he became friends with the two schoolmates with whom he would launch a poetic movement in 1941. A law graduate in Ankara, he studied political science in Paris and returned when war broke out. A civil servant, then a lawyer, he ended his career at the state railways. He changed his manner in 1956, also wrote plays and novels, translated Latin and Greek poets, and died in Istanbul on 18 April 1988.

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• PoetryGüzellemeOktay Rifat · 1945not translated into EnglishLiterature