Ataol Behramoğlu (born April 13, 1942) is a prominent Turkish poet, author, and Russian-into-Turkish literary translator.

Reprinted many times, this collection of poems was well received as a synthesis of the poetic tradition of Nazim Hikmet (1902-1963) with elements of symbolism and surrealism thrown in.

He participated in the founding of the Theatre de Liberté based in Paris and wrote texts for the "Légendes à Venir", the group's first performance.

Following the coup d'état on September 12, 1980, he was forced to resign from his post at the Istanbul Municipal Theatre and a new edition of his "Neither Rain… Nor Poems", published in 1981, was confiscated.

In 1981, he collected a series of humorous and critical poems under the title "Wanted: A Good Citizen" and set these to music for a cabaret act.

In Istanbul he published his own translations of poems by Louis Aragon (1897-1982), Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), Attila József (1905-1937), Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), José Martí (1853-1895), Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1936), Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), Sándor Petőfi (1823-1849), Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), Yiannis Ritsos (1909-1990) and others under the title "Ballads of Brotherhood".

In November 1983, at a session of the Turkish Peace Association's trial, he was sentenced in absentia to eight years hard labour followed by thirty-two months of domestic exile which forced him to leave his country.

In 1984 he began to participate in the work of the Sorbonne’s National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilisations at the Centre for Comparative Poetry in Paris .

In the same year , two new books of his poetry were published in Turkish in Germany: "Turkey, My Sad Country, My Beautiful Land" and "Letters to My Daughter".