Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı

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Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı
Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı

Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı (b. Hüseyin Cahit, October 4, 1910 – October 13, 1956) was a leading Turkish poet and author.

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He was born in Diyarbakır, Ottoman Empire, in 1910. He finished his secondary education in St. Joseph High School, then graduated from Galatasaray Lisesi in Istanbul. Having finished high school, he continued his education in the School of Political Sciences in Istanbul between the years 1931 and 1935. Then he left for Paris, France for a university degree and studied in the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, but he had to return to Turkey without completing his education in the wake of World War II in 1940.

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Poetry
  • "Ömrümde Sükut" (1933)
  • "Otuz Beş Yaş" (1946)
  • "Düşten Güzel" (1952)
  • "Sonrası" (1957)
Prose
  • "Ziya'ya Mektuplar" (1957)

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