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Hilmi Yavuz

Turkish writer

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Turkish literature

  • Ottoman Empire
    In Turkish literature: Modern Turkish literature

    Hilmi Yavuz worked as a journalist in London, where he also completed a degree in philosophy, and he later taught history and philosophy in Istanbul. In his poems the aesthetics of Ottoman civilization become the object of deep, at times nostalgic, reflection within a thoroughly…

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  • Al-Ḥākim Mosque
    In Islamic arts: Turkish

    The poetry of Hilmi Yavuz melded the aesthetics of Ottoman civilization with modernist poetic forms. His interweaving of past and present was typical of many Turkish poets in the last decades of the 20th century.

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