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