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In Jail with Nazim Hikmet
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In Jail with Nazim Hikmet Paperback - 2010

by Kemal, Orhan

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SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2010* Publisher: SAQI* Binding and cover condition: Monochrome photo-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems lightly used if at all. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 212 pp. text. xi pp. bibliography & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- It's Bursa prison, mid-winter 1940. Two prisoners meet, both writers, both serving long sentences for allegedly inciting Turkish soldiers to mutiny. One is Turkey's most famous poet, Nazim Hikmet. The other is a young, aspiring poet, Orhan Kemal, who now shares a cell with the man whose work he has long admired. In this prison memoir, Orhan Kemal reminisces on the time he shared with the great poet and describes how Hikmet inspired him to become one of Turkey's most popular and successful novelists. "In Jail with Nazim Hikmet" also includes Kemal's diary entries on Nazim and the latter's correspondence with Kemal after his release from prison in 1943.* This is a FINE copy of the 1st./1st. with minimal shelf wear.*
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  • Title In Jail with Nazim Hikmet
  • Author Kemal, Orhan
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition Thus
  • Condition Used - F/F/ND
  • Pages 215
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Saqi Books, London Uk 160
  • Date 2010-06-07
  • Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1704
  • ISBN 9780863564116 / 0863564119
  • Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.7 in (19.56 x 12.95 x 1.78 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Orhan Kemal (1914-1970) was one of Turkey's most popular novelists. He was found guilty for breach of the penal code during his military service, and served a prison sentence from 1938 to 1943. From 1951 he made his living entirely by writing - often with radical, anti-authoritarian content. His prison memoir, Nazim Hikmet'le Buuk Yil (Three and a Half Years with Nazim Hikmet) was written in 1947 and first published in Turkey in 1965. The Idle Years was published by Peter Owen in the UK in 2008.

Bengisu Rona teaches Turkish language and literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

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