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
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.{{cite web|url=https://www.reading.ac.uk/special-collections/collections/sc-baybars.aspx|publisher=reading.ac.uk|title=Taner Baybars Collection - University of Reading|accessdate=2016-11-16}}
Works
=Poetry=
- 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=
- A Trap for the Burglar, 1965
- Plucked in a far-off land: Images in Self-Biography, 1970
=Translation=
- 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
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External links
- Gur Genc, [http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1195&context=kunapipi Last Meeting with Taner Baybars], Kunapipi, 33(1), 2011
- Heidi Trautmann, [http://www.heiditrautmann.com/category.aspx?CID=4164513566#.Vv2vaRIrKXQ Taner Baybars – A Cypriot Turkish Poet - in memoriam]
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Category:Turkish Cypriot poets
Category:Turkish-language poets
Category:English-language poets
Category:Turkish–English translators