'''Taner Baybars''' (1936 – 20 January 2010), who also wrote under the name '''Timothy Bayliss''', was a Cyprus-born British 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.<ref name="reading">{{cite web|url=https://www.reading.ac.uk/special-collections/collections/sc-baybars.aspx|publisher=reading.ac.uk|title=Taner Baybars Collection - University of Reading|accessdate=2016-11-16}}</ref>
==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.
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==External links== * Gur Genc, [http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1195&context=kunapipi Last Meeting with Taner Baybars], Kunapipi, 33(1), 2011 * Heidi Trautmann, [http://www.heiditrautmann.com/category.aspx?CID=4164513566#.Vv2vaRIrKXQ Taner Baybars – A Cypriot Turkish Poet - in memoriam]
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Baybars, Taner}} Category:1936 births Category:2010 deaths Category:Turkish Cypriot poets Category:Turkish-language poets Category:English-language poets Category:Turkish–English translators Category:Cypriot emigrants to the United Kingdom Category:20th-century British translators