Taner Baybars
Taner Baybars (1936 – 20 January 2010), who also wrote under the name Timothy Bayliss, was a Cyprus-born British poet, translator and painter.
Life[edit]
Baybars contributed to literary magazines in Cyprus and Turkey before moving to England in the 1950s, and adopting English as his literary language. A collection of his manuscripts is held at the University of Reading.[1]
Works[edit]
Poetry[edit]
- Mendelin Ucundakiler, 1954
- To catch a Falling Man, 1963
- Susila in the Autumn Woods, 1974
- Narcissus in a dry Pool, 1978
- Pregnant shadows, 1981
Prose[edit]
- A Trap for the Burglar, 1965
- Plucked in a far-off land: Images in Self-Biography, 1970
Translation[edit]
- Selected Poems by Nazim Hikmet. 1967
- The Moscow Symphony by Nazim Hikmet. 1970
- The Day Before Tomorrow by Nazim Hikmet. Oxford: Carcanet Press, 1971
- Don't go back to Kyrenia by Mehmet Yashin. 2000.
References[edit]
- ^ "Taner Baybars Collection - University of Reading". reading.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
External links[edit]
- Gur Genc, Last Meeting with Taner Baybars, Kunapipi, 33(1), 2011
- Heidi Trautmann, Taner Baybars – A Cypriot Turkish Poet - in memoriam
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