Melih Cevdet Anday

Melih Cevdet Anday (13 March 1915 – 28 November 2002) was a Turkish poet and author whose poetry stands outside the traditional literary movements. He also wrote in many other genres which, over six and a half decades, included eleven collections of poems, eight plays, eight novels, fifteen collections of essays, several of which won major literary awards. He also translated several books from diverse languages into Turkish.