A poet from this modern-day country who sought to be a “fish in a bottle of booze” cited his unpleasant image of a man’s painful corns in the manifesto “Strange.” The poem “The Silent Ship” was addressed to the mother of a Marxist poet from this country, who spent a lengthy prison sentence writing a verse novel about its “Human Landscapes” and described a girl who “comes and stands at every door” in “Hiroshima Child.” In a novel from this country, the housewife Ella reads Sweet Blasphemy, which details Shams of Tabriz’s teachings to Rumi. A memoir titled for this country’s largest city analyzes its unique form of melancholy, hüzün. In a novel, a poet who keeps a green notebook returns to this country from a 12-year exile in Frankfurt to report on a suicide epidemic. For 10 points, Nâzım Hikmet was from what country of the author of Snow? ■END■
ANSWER: Turkey [or Republic of Türkiye] (The first line describes Orhan Veli Kanık, his poem “Epitaph I,” and the Garip Manifesto. “The Silent Ship” is by Yahya Kemal. The novel is The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak. The memoir is Istanbul: Memories of a City.)
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