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Cemal Süreya was born in 1931.He is successful poet of Turkish Literature.He died in 1990.

Arif Nihat Asya

He was born in 1904 in İstanbul.He is poet.Flag is his most famous poem.He died in 1975.

Nikos Kazantzakis was one of the most important Greek writers, poets and philosophers of the 20th century, was born in Heraklio in 1883.He became famous, however, during the last years of his life, when he turn to pezography. During that time he published, among others,Zorba the Greek (Vios kai politeia tou Alexi Zorba), The Last Temptation of Christ (O teleftaios peirasmos), Freedom and Death (O Kapetan Mihalis), The Greek Passion (O Hristos ksanastavronetai : Christ is Recrucified ), and his autobiography Report to Greco (Anafora ston Greco). His book, The Last Temptation of Christ, was considered quite controversial when first published in 1955, and prompted angry reactions from both the Roman Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church.