Famous People with Name Kanik

Orhan Veli Kanik - Poet, Founder Of Garip Movement            Origin/Culture/Country: Turkish

Orhan Veli Kanik - Poet, Founder Of Garip Movement: a Turkish poet. Orhan Veli, together with Oktay Rifat and Melih Cevdet, founded the Garip Movement.

Orhan Veli Kanik            Origin/Culture/Country: Turkish

Orhan Veli Kanik: was a Turkish poet. Together with Oktay Rifat and Melih Cevdet, he founded the Garip Movement.Orhan Veli's father was a conductor of the Presidential Symphony Orchestra. His younger brother, Adnan Veli, was a well known journalist whose memoir of his time in prison on political charges, "Mahpushane Çesmesi (The Prison Fountain)", was published in 1952. Orhan Veli studied at the Ankara Gazi High School before he started his university education which lasted one year at Istanbul University's philosophy department before dropping out in 1935. He was employed by the Ministry of Education as a translator from 1945 to 1947. Later, he worked as a freelance translator and journalist. In 1949, he helped the publication of Yaprak, a literary magazine. As also evidenced from the contents of some of his deeply humorous poetry, he was a heavy drinker. His death was due to a brain hemorrhage a few days after he fell into a pot hole on the street while intoxicated.