Nâzım Hikmet

Nazim Hikmet is one of those figures whose life reads like the poem itself. Born in Thessaloniki in 1902 and educated in Moscow, he was a poet, playwright, and novelist praised for the lyrical flow of his words. But what moves me is that he wrote through imprisonment and exile, never softening his convictions. To me that is the real measure of an artist: poetry was not decoration for him, it was survival. He died in 1963, yet he is still read across the world, and I think that endurance speaks louder than any award he never needed.

Name (English)

Nâzım Hikmet

Name (Japanese)

ナーズム・ヒクメット

Reading

なーずむ・ひくめっと

Born

January 15, 1902 – June 3, 1963

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Tiger

Origin

Thessaloniki, Greece

Occupation

playwright / poet / writer / screenwriter / prose writer

High school

Galatasaray High School

University

Communist University of the Toilers of the East

• Official sitehttps://www.nazimhikmet.org.tr
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A2z%C4%B1m%20Hikmet
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%92%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A1%E3%83%83%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q184906

Tags

• playwright
• poet
• writer

Last updated

2026-06-23

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