Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı (born Hüseyin Cahit; October 4, 1910 – October 13, 1956) was a kurdish poet,author,and translatorand.
short biography
Tarancı belonged to a well known clan family of Diyarbekir (present day: Diyarbakır) like his father Pirinççizâde Bekir Sıdkı and his uncle Pirinççizâde Aziz Feyzi.also he Like Zia Gok Alp and Suleiman Nazif and others, he was one of those people who denied the identity of his kurdish race due to the intellectual political atmosphere and totalitarian society of that time.
He was one of the leading poets of Turkish poetry during the Republican period. He is also known for translating poetry from French literature.
Tarancı finished his secondary education in St. Joseph High School, then graduated from Galatasaray High School in Istanbul. After Tarancı 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, to study 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.
From 1944 on, he worked as a translator in the state-owned news agency Anadolu Ajansı, the Turkish Grain Board (TMO) and the Ministry of Labor.[4]
In 1951, he married Cavidan Tınaz. Following a severe illness in 1954, he became paralyzed. As the treatment of his health problem did not succeed in Turkey, he was taken to Vienna, Austria. He died on October 13, 1956 in a hospital there. His body was brought to Turkey and was laid to rest at the Cebeci Asri Cemetery in Ankara.[4]
Poems:
He was not a songwriter,but his poems have also found their way into music.the poem "I Want a Country" is one of his lasting works.although Tarancı died at a mid-life age, he was on par with great and legendary poets such as Langston Hughes and Jacques Prévert, and others in terms of literary fame and popularity.
Stories:
Cahit Sıtkı wanted to be known for his poetry and was an artist who spent most of his life engaged in poetry, but also wrote stories.
he wrote his stories both in the years before he went to France and in the years when he was working for Cumhuriyet newspaper and trying to complete his higher education and published them in the same newspaper. [65] He wrote between 1935-1947 mostly because of financial difficulties.(according to his friend Baki Süha Edipoğlu).
these are short stories based on some observations from daily life.Tarancı wrote a total of eighty stories.With topics such as family, the confrontation of beauty and ugliness, love, childhood, working conditions, death, fear of the father, everyday life, and so on.
the first study on Cahit Sıtkı's stories was published by S.Önerli in a book published in Ankara-Akran printing house in 1976.
(Gün Eksilmesin),From My Window is a story book published in 2006, on the fiftieth anniversary of Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı's death. There are 43 stories of Tarancı in the book.the name of the book comes from Tarancı's poem "Gün Desimesin My Window".
"Evime ve Nihal'e Mektuplar"
,or Letters to My House and Nihal are a compilation of the letters in Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı Museum prepared by İnci Enginün and published by Atatürk High Institution of Culture, Language and History. [1] Eleven of the letters in the book were addressed to Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı's mother, five to his father, two to his parents, forty to Nihal, two to Yıldız, and one to Yıldız, Nihal and Yılmaz. The letters are arranged in chronological order.the book also includes letters and family pictures.
Book Poetry Titles:
Ömrümde Sükût (1933)
Otuz Beş Yaş (1946)
Düşten Güzel (1952)
Sonrası (1957)
Bütün Şiirleri (1983)
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part of the house where Tarancı was born and raised, which is now a museum
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