read and write. When he'd saved money from his shop, he knew how he wanted to spend it: "In the 50s, with 30 liras you could buy a dunam of land. I decided to buy a dictionary." In the 1960s Mr. Ali began writing the poems that would make him famous--they are filled with longing for his hometown and for the girl he was supposed to wed in an arranged marriage before they were separated in the turmoil of 1948--but his first book was not published until 1983.
from The New York Times: A Merchant of Trinkets and Memories
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