Nazım Hikmet Beyond the Walls

Richard McKane

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Nazım Hikmet's poetry combines passion and simplicity with sophistication,producing work of enduring signifıcance.He was both a superb narrative andlyric poet;his immense and continuing popularity in Turkey testifıes to hiscommon touch .The exentive selection ranges from his epic poem'Sheikh Bedreddin'to the moving prison poems addressed to his wife .The book is introduced by theleading expert on Turkish literature,Talat Sait Halman,former proseffor of Turkishliterature at Princeton and New York Universities and now at Bilkent University,Ankara.Nazım Hikmet (1902-63),Turkey's greatest modern poet,was a political prisoner in Turkeyfor more than fourteen years and spent the last thirteen years of his life in exile,mainlyin Russia,travelling widely through Europe and further afıeld.Ruth Cristie was born and educated in scotland.She studied Turkish at the School of Orientaland African Studies in London.She has taught English literature and has been translating novels,short stories and poetry from the Turkish for many years..