WRITER

Orhan Veli Kanık

1914 - 1950

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Orhan Veli Kanık or Orhan Veli (14 April 1914 – 14 November 1950) was a Turkish poet. Kanık is one of the founders of the Garip Movement together with Oktay Rıfat and Melih Cevdet. Aiming to fundamentally transform traditional form in Turkish poetry, he introduced colloquialisms into the poetic language. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Orhan Veli Kanık has received more than 119,378 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Orhan Veli Kanık is the 3,482nd most popular writer (down from 3,352nd in 2019), the 790th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 887th in 2019) and the 91st most popular Turkish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Bütün şiirleri
1973
Orhan Veli Kanık
1967
Bütün şiirleri
1963
Nasrettin Hoca Hikayeleri
2021
Orhan Veli Bütün Siirleri
2021
Bütün Siirleri
2021

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Orhan Veli Kanık ranks 3,482 out of 7,302. Before him are Solomon Alkabetz, Bat Ye'or, Misuzu Kaneko, Moritz Steinschneider, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, and John Boyne. After him are Jurij Brězan, Hiratsuka Raichō, Gary Snyder, Andrejs Pumpurs, Roger Vailland, and Immanuel Velikovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Orhan Veli Kanık ranks 196. Before him are Nikolay Makarov, Ray Walston, Evelyn Furtsch, Norman Lloyd, Maxim of Bulgaria, and Suso Cecchi d'Amico. After him are Edmund Muskie, Toulo de Graffenried, Igor M. Diakonoff, Akira Ifukube, Frances Oldham Kelsey, and Shaken Aimanov. Among people deceased in 1950, Orhan Veli Kanık ranks 106. Before him are Guilhermina Suggia, Joanni Perronet, Arthur L. Newton, Sudirman, Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, and Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay. After him are Heinrich Tessenow, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Pavel Bazhov, Alexandru Vaida-Voevod, Miklós Bánffy, and László Cseh.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Orhan Veli Kanık ranks 790 out of 1,347. Before him are Anna of Trebizond, Queen of Georgia (1357), Fatma Girik (1942), Justin (600), Demetrios Ypsilantis (1793), Hesychius of Miletus (505), and Şivan Perwer (1955). After him are Constantine Leichoudes (1000), Burak Yılmaz (1985), Theodora Komnene (1096), Polemon of Laodicea (200), Richard von Kühlmann (1873), and Benjamin I of Constantinople (1871).

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Among WRITERS In Türkiye

Among writers born in Türkiye, Orhan Veli Kanık ranks 91. Before him are Muazzez İlmiye Çığ (1914), Zülfü Livaneli (1946), Arctinus of Miletus (-800), Marie-Joseph Chénier (1764), Ruben Sevak (1885), and John VIII of Constantinople (1005). After him are Oppian (101), Xanthus (-500), Aphthonius of Antioch (300), Musine Kokalari (1917), John Mauropous (990), and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (1901).

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