Poet, actor and director (b. 5 May 1925, İstanbul - d. 20 June 2002). He
graduated from İstanbul Robert College (1946). He studied at Washington State
and Wisconsin Universities (1950-57). He worked as actor and director at
İstanbul City Theatres and on Turkish Radio and Television Corporation theatre
programs. He retired in 1982. He translated a lot of plays from English to
Turkish and from Turkish to English. Through the plays he directed, he
collected the Ankara Art Institution Award (1976) with Issız Topraklar (Desolate
Lands), the Avni Dilligil Award (1978) with Kadife
Çiçekleri (Velvet Flavors) and for a
second time the Avni Dilligil Award (1984) with “Amadeus”. In addition, he did
many voiceovers for cinema and television (İttihad ve Terakki-Union and
Progress, Üç İstanbul-Three İstanbuls,
etc.)
WORKS:
MEMOIR: Türkçemiz (Our
Turkish, 1958).
POETRY: Siğil Taş Olsa
(If Only a Wart was a Stone, 1966).
