Tevfik Fikret

Tevfik Fikret was born on 24 December 1867 in Istanbul and graduated first in his class from the Galatasaray lycée in 1888. He taught, then from 1896 directed the review around which a literary school formed, and left it in 1901, the year the authorities censored it. He taught at Robert College until his death and had the house of Aşiyan built nearby, on the Bosphorus. Hostile to the regime of Abdülhamid, he denounced it in a poem of 1902. Suffering from diabetes, he died in Istanbul in August 1915; buried at Eyüp, he has rested at Aşiyan since 1962.

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• PoetryRubab-ı ŞikesteTevfik Fikret · 1900not translated into EnglishLiterature