Nâzım Hikmet
Mehmed Nâzım Ran, commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet, was a Turkish poet, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director, and memoirist. He was acclaimed for the "lyrical flow of his statements". Described as a "romantic communist" and a "romantic revolutionary", he was repeatedly arrested for his political beliefs and spent much of his adult life in prison or in exile.
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- Born in
- Thessaloniki
- Educated at
- Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityGalatasaray High SchoolCommunist University of the Toilers of the East
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1902
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