Poet (b. 23 April 1952, Hafik / Sivas).
He completed his primary and secondary education in Ankara. He was retired in
1994, after working as a civil officer in Kayseri and Ankara and as a
contracted staff at the Turkish Aeronautical Association. He is a member of the
Writers Syndicate of Turkey, the Turkish Authors Association and the PEN
Association of Writers.
His first poem,
titled “Kırık Dallar” (The Broken Branches) was published in the review Defne
(Ankara). His later poems and articles were published in the reviews he
published with his friends, such as Ozanca (1976) and Hakimiyet Sanat
(1976-80), and in other reviews such as Varlık,
Yazko Edebiyat, Adam Sanat, Yeni Biçem, Oluşum, Türkiye Yazıları, Edebiyat ve
Eleştiri, Defter and Yasakmeyve. He became the
editor-in-chief of the review Şiir Odası, which was published for twelve
issues in Ankara. Abdülkadir Budak, who is mentioned among the poets of the
1970’s generation, has tried to relate the problems of the individual to the
social ones; and formed an authentic poetry. He collected the Turkish Language
Association Award in 1982 with his children’s poetry book titled Bir Gül
Çocuk (A Rosy Child); the Ceyhun Atuf Kansu Poetry Award and Orhon Murat
Arıburnu Poetry Award in 1994 with his poetry book titled İmzası Gül
(Her Sign is Rose); the Halil Kocagöz Poetry Award in 1998 with Aşk Beni
Geçer (Love Passes Me).
WORKS:
POETRY: Geçti İlkyaz Denemesi (The Spring Trial is Gone,
1978), Şimdi Yaz (Summer Now, 1980), Gömleğim Leylâ Desenli (My
Shirt Patterned with Leyla, 1981), Sevdanın Son Kerem’i (The Last Kerem
of Love, 1985), İmzası Gül (Her Sign is Rose, 1993), Yanlış Anka
Destanı (The Wrong Phoenix Epic, 1994), Aşk Beni Geçer (Love Passes
Me, 1997), Endişeli Fesleğen (The Worried Sweet Basil, 1999), Ahşap
Anahtar (Wooden Key, 2000), Ev Zamanı (Home Time, 2002), Sana
Bakmak (Looking at You, 2004).
CHILDREN’S POETRY: Bir
Gül Çocuk (A Rosy Child, 1981), Kuşların Alfabesi (The
Alphabet of the Birds, 1997).
ESSAY: Ayna Sandım Şiiri (I Thought Poetry Was a Mirror, 1998).
