Üç Şehitler Destanı / Three Martyrs Saga
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Autor:
Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca
Country:
Turkey (TR)
Book Theme:
Poets reperesenting yuor country poetry
Publisher:
Doğan Books
Publishing Year:
1997
He was one of the most prolific Turkish poets of the Turkish Republic with more than 60 collections of his poems published as of 2007. He was a laureate of the Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath Award. Dağlarca’s purist use of the Turkish language brought a new dimension to contemporary Turkish literature. His poems treat themes such as the prehistory of mankind and the cosmos, but also antimilitarist themes and the Turkish War of Independence.
A selection of his poems have been translated into English by Talat Sait Halman (Selected Poems,Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1969).
He was laid to rest at the
Karacaahmet Cemetery on 20 October 2008 following a funeral ceremony held in the Süreyya Opera House that was attended by politicians and high-ranking officials
National Award for Children’s and Young People’s
Abstract
It is a poem book written by the esteemed poet Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, who writes
his own poems without being connected to any movement, deals with the days of the War of
Independence and tells the struggle of the Turkish nation for the homeland and independence with an effective language. He discussed the events he lived through and what kind of life and story he had due to the fact that his sons were in the War of Independence.
