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Taner Baybars
Taner Baybars (1936 – 20 January 2010), who also wrote under the name Timothy Bayliss, was a Cyprus-born British poet, translator and painter. Life Baybars contributed to literary magazines in Cyprus and Turkey before moving to England in the 1950s, and adopting English as his literary language. A collection of his manuscripts is held at the University of Reading. Works Poetry * ''Mendelin Ucundakiler'', 1954 * ''To catch a Falling Man'', 1963 * ''Susila in the Autumn Woods'', 1974 * '' Narcissus in a dry Pool'', 1978 * ''Pregnant shadows'', 1981 Prose * ''A Trap for the Burglar'', 1965 * ''Plucked in a far-off land: Images in Self-Biography'', 1970 Translation * ''Selected Poems'' by Nazim Hikmet. 1967 * ''The Moscow Symphony'' by Nazim Hikmet. 1970 * ''The Day Before Tomorrow'' by Nazim Hikmet. Oxford: Carcanet Press, 1971 * ''Don't go back to Kyrenia'' by Mehmet Yashin. 2000. References External links * Gur GencLast Meeting with Taner Baybars Kunapipi, 33(1), 2011 * Heidi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyprus
Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is geographically in Western Asia, its cultural ties and geopolitics are overwhelmingly Southern European. Cyprus is the third-largest and third-most populous island in the Mediterranean. It is located north of Egypt, east of Greece, south of Turkey, and west of Lebanon and Syria. Its capital and largest city is Nicosia. The northeast portion of the island is ''de facto'' governed by the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, which was established after the 1974 invasion and which is recognised as a country only by Turkey. The earliest known human activity on the island dates to around the 10th millennium BC. Archaeological remains include the well-preserved ruins from the Hellenistic period such as Salamis and Kourion, and Cypr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |