Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca

Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca was born on 26 August 1914 in Istanbul, in Ortaköy; his father was an officer. After graduating from the Kuleli military high school and the war academy in 1935, he served fifteen years as an infantry officer, in Erzurum, Iğdır and Thrace, and left the army in 1950. A labour inspector until 1959, he then ran a bookshop in Istanbul, Kitap Kitabevi. He published more than sixty collections, received the Golden Wreath of the Struga Poetry Evenings in 1974, and died in Istanbul on 15 October 2008.

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• PoetryAsuFazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca · 1955not translated into EnglishLiterature