Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı (born Hüseyin Cahit; 4 October 1911 – 13 October 1956) was a
Turkish poet
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and author from Türkiye.
Identified with the poem "Otuz Beş Yaş", Tarancı
adhered to the understanding of "art for art's sake". He mostly included the themes of joy of life and death in his poems; He also wrote poems about lost loves, happy loves, loneliness, the bitterness of the bohemian life he lived, and childhood longing. Many of his poems were composed by different composers.
In addition to his poetry books Ömrümde Sükût (1933), Otuz Beş Yaş (1946), Düşten Güzel (1952) and after his death "Sonrası"(1957) and Bütün Şiirleri (1983), he wrote various stories, and these stories were published on the 50th anniversary of Tarancı's death. It was published under the title " Gün Eksilmesin Penceremden" (2006). Most of the letters the poet wrote to his family members, friends and close friends, who also translated poems from French literature, were published under the names of Ziya'ya Mektuplar (1957) and Evime ve Nihal'e Mektuplar (1989).
Filmografisi
* 1933: Cici Berber
* 1933: Söz Bir Allah Bir
* 1933: Karım Beni Aldatırsa
* 1934: Milyon Avcıları
* 1939: Allah'ın Cenneti
* 1940: Akasya Palas
* 1940: Şehvet Kurbanı
* 1942: Kıskanç
* 1942: Sürtük
* 1945: Yayla Kartalı
* 1947: Gençlik Günahı
* 1950: Bir Fırtına Gecesi
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.
Tarancı finished his secondary education in
St. Joseph High School, then graduated from
Galatasaray High School
Galatasaray High School (, ), established in Istanbul in 1481, is the oldest and Selective school, highly selective high school in Turkey. It is also the second-oldest Turkish educational institution after Istanbul University, which was establi ...
in
Istanbul
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. 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
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, to study in the
Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris
Sciences Po () or Sciences Po Paris, also known as the Paris Institute of Political Studies (), is a public research university located in Paris, France, that holds the status of ''grande école'' and the legal status of . The university's unde ...
, but he had to return to
Turkey
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without completing his education in the wake of
World War II
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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.
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
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,
Austria
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. He died on 13 October 1956 in a hospital there. His body was brought to Turkey and was laid to rest at the
Cebeci Asri Cemetery in Ankara.
Bibliography
;Poetry:
* ''Ömrümde Sükut'' (1933)
* ''Otuz Beş Yaş'' (1946)
* ''Düşten Güzel'' (1952)
* ''Sonrası'' (1957)
;Prose:
* ''Ziya'ya Mektuplar'' (1957)
See also
*
List of contemporary Turkish poets
References
External links
Şiirleri - PoemsCahit Sıtkı Tarancı - ''On his life and poetry''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Taranci, Cahit Sitki
1910 births
1956 deaths
Turkish poets
Galatasaray High School alumni
People from Diyarbakır
Burials at Cebeci Asri Cemetery
20th-century Turkish poets
St. Joseph High School Istanbul alumni