Sleeping in the Forest Talat S. Halman

Talat S. Halman is a professor and former chairman of the Department of Turkish Literature at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, and the author of over sixty books including works on contemporary Turkish literature and his own poetry. He studied at Robert College and Columbia University, served as Turkey's first Minister of Culture in 1971, and was decorated by Queen Elizabeth II as a Knight Grand Cross of the British Empire.