Melih Cevdet AndayMelih Cevdet Anday (1915-2002), Turkish poet and writer who was one of the forefront poets of the Garip movement, together with Orhan Veli and Oktay Rifat, in the 1940s. He graduated from Ankara Gazi High School and studied law at the Ankara Universiy, Law School, but did not graduate. He went to Belgium to study sociology but was interrupted by the Second World War. Upon his return to Turkey, he started working as a consultant for the Ministry of Education. He also worked as a journalist and wrote several articles for Akşam and Cumhuriyet newspapers. During a career that spanned six and a half decades, Melih Cevdet Anday published eleven collections of poems, eight plays, eight novels, and fifteen collections of essays as well as a book of memoirs. Read More Read Less