Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı
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Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı (born Hüseyin Cahit; October 4, 1910 – October 13, 1956) was a Turkish poet and author.[1][2]. Identified with the poem "Otuz Beş Yaş", Tarancı[1] adhered to the understanding of "art for art's sake". He mostly included the themes of joy of life and death in his poems; He also wrote poems about lost loves, happy loves, loneliness, the bitterness of the bohemian life he lived, and childhood longing. Many of his poems were composed by different composers. In addition to his poetry books Ömrümde Sükût (1933), Otuz Beş Yaş (1946), Düşten Güzel (1952) and after his death "Sonrası"(1957) and Bütün Şiirleri (1983), he wrote various stories, and these stories were published on the 50th anniversary of Tarancı's death. It was published under the title " Gün Eksilmesin Penceremden" (2006). Most of the letters the poet wrote to his family members, friends and close friends, who also translated poems from French literature, were published under the names of Ziya'ya Mektuplar (1957) and Evime ve Nihal'e Mektuplar (1989).
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Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı | |
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Born | (1910-10-04)October 4, 1910 Diyarbakır, Ottoman Empire |
Died | October 13, 1956(1956-10-13) (aged 46) Vienna, Austria |
Occupation | Novelist, Interpreter |
Nationality | Turkish |
Literary movement | Garip |
Spouse |
Cavidan Tınaz (m. 1951–1956) |