Nedîm

Nedîm (c. 1681–1730), pen name of Ahmed Efendi, was the most celebrated Ottoman lyric poet of the Tulip Period, favored at Ahmed III's court. Rejecting the didactic style of the Nabi school, he wrote fresh, vernacular, often playful love lyrics and brought folk song forms into Divan poetry, founding the manner called Nedîmâne.

He taught at madrasas, served as chief librarian and the sultan's boon companion, and died in 1730; accounts differ, but one says he fell from his roof while fleeing the Patrona Halil rebellion.