Orhan Veli Kanık

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Orhan Veli Kanık was a pioneering 20th-century Turkish poet best known for leading the Garip movement, which revolutionized Turkish poetry with its colloquial language and everyday themes.

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instanceOf Turkish poet
human
modernist poet
poet
burialPlace Aşiyan Asri Cemetery
causeOfDeath intracranial hemorrhage
coFounded Garip movement
collaboratedWith Melih Cevdet Anday
Oktay Rifat
countryOfCitizenship Turkey
dateOfBirth 1914-04-13
dateOfDeath 1950-11-14
educatedAt Galatasaray High School
Istanbul University
surface form: Istanbul University Faculty of Literature
era 20th century
ethnicGroup Turks
familyName Kanık
fieldOfWork literature
translation
genre poetry
givenName Orhan
hasPartInCollection Collected Poems of Orhan Veli
influenced Turkish poetry
contemporary Turkish poets
influencedBy French poetry
knownFor rejection of traditional prosody
revolutionizing Turkish poetry
use of everyday speech in poetry
languageOfExpression Turkish
movement First New movement
Garip movement
name Orhan Veli Kanık self-link
nationality Turkish
notableWork Destan Gibi
Garip
Vazgeçemediğim
Yenisi
occupation poet
translator
placeOfBirth Istanbul
Ottoman Empire
placeOfDeath Istanbul
residence Istanbul
sexOrGender male
style colloquial language
everyday themes
subjectOf biographical studies on modern Turkish poetry
workedOn translation of French literature into Turkish

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Orhan Veli Kanık name Orhan Veli Kanık self-link
Turkish literature notableAuthor Orhan Veli Kanık