Ataol Behramoğlu

Turkish writer

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In Turkish literature: Modern Turkish literature
Ataol Behramoğlu studied in Ankara and Moscow as well as in England and France. Often seen as the successor to Nâzim Hikmet, he merged political themes and folkloric forms. Among his collections of poetry are Kuşatmada (1978; “During the Siege”) and Türkiye üzgün yurdum, güzel…
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In Islamic arts: Turkish
…all over the Muslim world; Ataol Behramoğlu was often considered Hikmet’s successor. Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca was another poet with leftist views. His modernist poetry made him one of Turkey’s most influential poets during the post-World War II era. The poetry of Hilmi Yavuz melded the aesthetics of Ottoman civilization with…
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