Attilâ İlhan

Attilâ İlhan was born on 15 June 1925 in Menemen, near Izmir; his father was a prosecutor there. In February 1941, as a schoolboy, he was arrested over poems copied into a letter to a young girl, held for three weeks and expelled from school. He studied law in Istanbul without finishing, then became a journalist and film critic. He stayed several times in Paris, from 1949, wrote novels and, under the name Ali Kaptanoğlu, screenplays. He died at home, in Istanbul, on 10 October 2005.

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• PoetryDuvarAttilâ İlhan · 1948not translated into EnglishLiterature