Crimean poet and writer (b. 1989,
Tavdayır / Akmescit / Crimea - d. 1938). He entered to literature with his poem
Duygularım (My Feelings) in 1921. The poet told about October Revolution in this
poem and in his poem İnternastional
Çalına (Play the International).
He showed the social changes in the life of people with his poems Amansız Küreşte (In a Cruel Wrestling) and Eşitigiz! (We are
Equal).
Cafer Gafar who also had the works in
prose, wrote about actual issues. The most important qualification of the
writer, who issued about the class difference between rich and poor, was
psychological depth and pure language. Although his works for establishing and
settling down of Bolshevism, he could not rescue from the persecution of Stalin
in 1938. Even his grave is not known.
WORKS:
POETRY: İnkılabi Şiirler (Revolutionary Poems, 1926).
OTHER WORKS: Ömürden Örnekler (Examples from Life, 1927), Hikâyeler
ve Şairler (Short Stories and Poets, 1933).
