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WHAT DID THEY WRITE ABOUT HIM?
Louis Aragon (1897-1982)
"Nâzım, they told me about you first in 1934; you were in prison; I was able to write something then. Our friendship did not last thirty years. How short, a mere thirty years. In 1950, when we, the Turkish people and poets from all around the world, obtained your release from prison, on that fourteenth of July you directly plunged into life. But now, this year, you were too impatient to for July... Thirteen years outside of prison, or something close to that, from forty-eight to sixty-one¾that is a nice life. Thirteen years, is and means a lot. You died outside of prison, this means a lot, too." (From "For Nâzım Hikmet.")
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