Ahmed Hamdi Tanpınar

Turkish writer

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Turkish literature

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    In Turkish literature: Modern Turkish literature

    …of 20th-century Turkish literature is Ahmed Hamdi Tanpınar. A scholar of modern Turkish literature, he taught at Istanbul University for most of his life and published much literary criticism, including a major critical work on the poetry of Beyatlı, under whom he had studied. But Tanpınar’s scholarship was overshadowed by…

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