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Nâzım Hikmet

1902 - 1963

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Mehmed Nâzım Ran (17 January 1902 – 3 June 1963), commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet (Turkish: [naːˈzɯm hicˈmet] ), 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. His poetry has been translated into more than 50 languages. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nâzım Hikmet is the 539th most popular writer (down from 340th in 2019), the 143rd most popular biography from Greece (down from 92nd in 2019) and the 17th most popular Greek Writer.

Nâzım Hikmet is most famous for his poetry. He was a Turkish poet, novelist, and communist activist.

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Among writers, Nâzım Hikmet ranks 539 out of 7,302. Before him are Richard Bach, Pierre de Ronsard, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Martial, Vasubandhu, and Luo Guanzhong. After him are Osip Mandelstam, Seneca the Elder, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Camille Flammarion, Augusta, Lady Gregory, and Jean Paul.

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Among people born in 1902, Nâzım Hikmet ranks 26. Before him are Talcott Parsons, André Michel Lwoff, Josemaría Escrivá, Alva Myrdal, William Wyler, and Margaret Hamilton. After him are Andrew Irvine, Marcel Breuer, Meyer Lansky, Mikhail Suslov, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., and Ray Kroc. Among people deceased in 1963, Nâzım Hikmet ranks 23. Before him are Theodor Heuss, Sylvia Plath, Paul Hindemith, Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria, Yasujirō Ozu, and Józef Gosławski. After him are Carmen Amaya, Abd al-Karim Qasim, J. D. Tippit, Herbert Spencer Gasser, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, and Jacques Hadamard.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Nâzım Hikmet ranks 143 out of 1,024. Before him are Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (1882), Ioannis Metaxas (1871), Oruç Reis (1473), Desmond Doss (1919), Antonia Minor (-36), and Hippias (-600). After him are Djemal Pasha (1872), Perseus of Macedon (-212), Nabis (-300), Cratylus (-500), Antonia the Elder (-39), and Pherecydes of Syros (-580).

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Among WRITERS In Greece

Among writers born in Greece, Nâzım Hikmet ranks 17. Before him are Arion (-700), Archilochus (-680), Simonides of Ceos (-556), Demetrius Vikelas (1835), Phaedrus (-20), and Lysias (-445). After him are Hellanicus of Lesbos (-490), Longus (110), Tyrtaeus (-700), Odysseas Elytis (1911), Jerry Falwell (1933), and Aristarchus of Samothrace (-217).

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