Nâzım Hikmet 1902’de Selanik’te doğdu. Nâzım Hikmet, Osmanlı İm-
paratorluğu’nda birçok örneği görülen kozmopolit bir aileye mensuptur.
1921’de Nâzım Hikmet Moskova’ya gider ve “Doğu Emekçileri Komünist
Üniversitesi”nde sosyoloji, politoloji ve sanat tarihini okumaya başlar.
Çağdaş Türk şiirinde Nâzım Hikmet’in önemli yeri vardır. İlk şiirle-
rini hece vezniyle yazar. Moskova’da fütürist ve konstrüktivizm akımlarıyla
tanışır ve özellikle Vladimir Mayakovski’den etkilenir. Böylece Nâzım Hikmet
Türk dilinin zengin ses sisteminden ve ses uyumlarından yararlanarak Türk
şiirine serbest nazmı getirir. Şiirleri elliyi aşkın dile çevrilmiştir.
Kitaplarını yazarken ilhamı hayatından ve dünyada yaşayan insan-
lardan, özellikle Türkiye’de ve Sovyetler Birliği’nde yaşayan insanlardan
alır. O, şiirlerinde, hayat, ölüm, adalet, barış, hapis, kadın, eş, adam, anne,
baba, çocuk, sevgi, köyler, şehirler, vatan ve insan sevgisi için yazar.
Nâzım Hikmet 1963’te Moskova’da vefat etti.
Nazım Hıkmet was born in Salonica, Ottoman Empire, today
Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1902. He came from a cosmopolitan and
distinguished family. He is one of the best lyric poets in Turkey. In 1921
Hikmet went to Moscow where he studied Sociology at the Communist
University of the Toilers of the East.
Nazim Hikmet has an important place in contemporary Turkish poetry.
He was writing his first poems in syllabic verse. In Moscow, he was
influenced by the young Rusian poets, especially by Vladimir Mayakovsky.
There, Nazim Hikmet changed his form and preferred writing in free verse which harmonised with the rich vocal properties of the Turkish language. His
poetry has been translated into more than fifty languages.
The books that he wrote were inspired by his life and the people all
over the world, particularly from Turkey and Soviet Union. He often wrote
about life, death, justice, peace, prison, woman, wife, man, mother, father,
child, love, villages, cities, homeland in his poems and put his love for people
into his writing.
Nazim Hikmet died in 1963 in Moscow, Soviet Union.