Background
Melih Cevdet Anday was born in Istanbul in 1915.
Melih Cevdet Anday was born in Istanbul in 1915.
He graduated from Ankara Gazi High School and started working as a consultant for the Ministry of Education.
His unique poetry stands outside the traditional poetic movements searching for new ways in poetry. Their new poetry resolved to make itself simple, colloquial, matter of fact—an artless art designed to serve the common people. He also worked as a journalist and written several articles for Akşam and Cumhuriyet newspapers.
After 1954, he worked as a teacher for the Istanbul Council Conservatory.
He wrote several novels as well as translated several books into Turkish. In 1971, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization honoured him—along with such giants like Shakespeare, Dante, Tolstoy, Cervantes et cetera