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Orhan Veli Kanık

1914 - 1950

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Orhan Veli Kanık or Orhan Veli (13 April 1914 – 14 November 1950) was a Turkish poet. He was one of the founders of the Garip Movement together with Oktay Rıfat and Melih Cevdet. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Orhan Veli Kanık is the 3,707th most popular writer (down from 3,482nd in 2019), the 985th most popular biography from Türkiye (down from 951st in 2019) and the 104th most popular Turkish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Orhan Veli Kanık ranks 3,707 out of 7,302. Before him are Norman Vincent Peale, Felix Timmermans, Ian Rankin, Francis Scott Key, Jesús Moncada, and Ferdinand Freiligrath. After him are Staka Skenderova, Símun av Skarði, Adam Bohorič, Antonio Palomino, Vassilis Alexakis, and Kim Stanley Robinson.

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Among people born in 1914, Orhan Veli Kanık ranks 222. Before him are Evelyn Furtsch, Reuben Fine, Edmund Muskie, Bertus Aafjes, Viktor Grishin, and Dobri Dobrev. After him are B. R. Chopra, Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, Christl Cranz, Norman McLaren, Luis Mariano, and Robert Herman. Among people deceased in 1950, Orhan Veli Kanık ranks 119. Before him are Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, Juan Botasso, Recep Peker, Sergei Khudyakov, Hiroshi Yoshida, and Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay. After him are Pavel Bazhov, Black Elk, Dezső Földes, Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Pedro Parages, and George Kingsley Zipf.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Orhan Veli Kanık ranks 985 out of 1,347. Before him are Bergüzar Korel (1982), Fatma Girik (1942), Avetis Aharonian (1866), Sırrı Süreyya Önder (1962), Zipoetes I of Bithynia (-354), and Mustafa Dağıstanlı (1931). After him are John the Silent (454), Aphthonius of Antioch (300), Serapion of Antioch (200), Özcan Deniz (1972), Metrophanes of Byzantium (300), and Okan Buruk (1973).

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Among WRITERS In Türkiye

Among writers born in Türkiye, Orhan Veli Kanık ranks 104. Before him are Yervant Odian (1869), Nihal Atsız (1905), Musine Kokalari (1917), George Kodinos (1350), Aurora Mardiganian (1901), and Marie-Joseph Chénier (1764). After him are Aphthonius of Antioch (300), Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (1901), Ruben Sevak (1885), Panyassis (-500), Siamanto (1878), and Zülfü Livaneli (1946).

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