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Nazım Hikmet's poetry combines passion and simplicity with sophistication, producing work of enduring signifıcance.He was both a superb narrative and lyric poet;his immense and continuing popularity in Turkey testifıes to his common touch .The exentive selection ranges from his epic poem'Sheikh Bedreddin' to the moving prison poems addressed to his wife .The book is introduced by the leading expert on Turkish literature,Talat Sait Halman,former proseffor of Turkish literature at Princeton and New York Universities and now at Bilkent University,Ankara. Nazım Hikmet (1902-63),Turkey's greatest modern poet,was a political prisoner in Turkey for more than fourteen years and spent the last thirteen years of his life in exile,mainly in Russia,travelling widely through Europe and further afıeld. Ruth Cristie was born and educated in scotland.She studied Turkish at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.She has taught English literature and has been translating novels, short stories and poetry from the Turkish for many years..