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| Born | Orhan Veli Kanık (1914-04-13)13 April 1914 |
| Died | 14 November 1950(1950-11-14) (aged 36) Istanbul, Turkey |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Alma mater | Istanbul University |
| Period | 1936–1950 |
| Literary movement | Garip |
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| Epic tradition |
| Folk tradition |
| Ottoman era |
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Orhan Veli Kanık orOrhan Veli (13 April 1914 – 14 November 1950) was aTurkish poet. He was one of the founders of theGarip Movement together withOktay Rıfat andMelih Cevdet.
Orhan Veli Kanık was born at number 9 Çayır Alley on the İshak Ağa Climb in YalıköyBeykoz, on 13 April 1914. His father, Mehmet Veli, was the son of Fehmi Bey, a merchant fromSmyrna, and his mother was Fatma Nigar, Hacı Ahmet Bey's daughter fromBeykoz. Veli spent his childhood years inBeykoz,Beşiktaş andCihangir.
He graduated from high school in 1932. He was enrolled in the philosophy chair ofIstanbul University's Department of Literature. In 1933 he was elected the president of the Department of Literature Students' Association. He dropped out of the university in 1935 without obtaining his degree. He continued with his teacher's assistant position at the Galatasaray High School for another year after dropping out of college.
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Kanık moved to Ankara and was hired at Telegraph Department International Orders Bureau of thePTT, the Turkish national mail and telegraph service.
He leftPTT in 1942 for his mandatory military service. He served until 1945 inKavakköy inGallipoli. He was discharged in 1945 as a lieutenant and started working in the Translations Department of theMinistry of Education.
After Yaprak was shuttered Kanık moved back to Istanbul. On 10 November 1950 while visiting Ankara he fell down a hole dug in the street by the municipality. He returned to Istanbul two days later. On 14 November he felt sick while having lunch at a friend's house and was admitted to hospital. He was misdiagnosed and treated for alcohol poisoning, slipping into a coma at 20:00 the same evening. He died of abrain aneurysm at 23:30 in Cerrahpaşa Hospital, Istanbul.[1]
For the 38th anniversary of his death a sculpture of him was inaugurated inAşiyan Asri Cemetery where he is buried.[2] In 1998 two more sculptures were made featuring him, this time inVişnezade. He is featured inGürdal DuyarsŞairler Sofası which was erected ina park of the same name. The sculpture features him with six other Turkish poets. In the same parkNamık Denizhans sculpture of Orhan Veli was also erected.[3][4]
Güneş/Sol, Leonardo da Fonseca (trad.),(n.t.) Revista Literária em Tradução, nº 2 (mar/2011), Fpolis/Brasil, ISSN 2177-5141
