Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel

Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel (May 18, 1898 – November 8, 1973) was a leading Turkish poet, author and later politician.

Biography

He was born in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, in 1898. He completed his primary and secondary education in Istanbul. Having studied medicine for a while, he quit his education and decided to work in the newspaper Ati. In 1973, he died of a heart attack on board a ship.^[1]

Bibliography

Poetry

• "Şarkın Sultanları" (1918)
• "Gönülden Gönüle" (1919)
• "Dinle Neyden" (1919)
• "Çoban Çeşmesi" (1926)
• "Suda Halkalar" (1928)
• "Bir Ömür Böyle Geçti" (1933)
• "Elimle Seçtiklerim" (1934)
• "Akarsu" (1936)
• "Tatlı Sert" (Mizahi Şiirler, 1938)
• "Akıncı Türküleri" (1938)
• "Heyecan ve Sükun" (1959)
• "Zindan Duvarları" (1967)
• "Han Duvarları" (1969)

Theatre plays

• "Canavar" (1925)
• "Akın" (1932)
• "Özyurt" (1932)
• "Kahraman" (1933)
• "Yayla Kartalı" (1945)
• "İlk Göz Ağrısı" (1946)

Performances

• "Bir Demette Beş Çiçek" (1933)
• "Yangın" (1933)

Novels

• "Yıldız Yağmuru" (1936)
• "Ayşe'nin Doktoru" (1949)

See also

• List of contemporary Turkish poets
• Öküz Mehmet Pasha Complex

References

• Biyografi.info - Biography of Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel (Turkish)
• Aruz.com - Biography of Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel (Turkish)

External links

• Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel - On his life and poetry