Taner Baybars

Taner Baybars (1936 – 20 January 2010), who also wrote under the name Timothy Bayliss, was a Cyprus-born 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.[1]

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
  1. "Taner Baybars Collection - University of Reading". reading.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
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