Poet and writer (b. 20 May 1940, Kahramanmaraş
- d. 26 June 2003, Kütahya). He attended primary and elementary school in
Maraş, Tunceli,
He published a review with the title Hamle
in Maraş together with his twin brother and the storywriters Rasim Özdenören,
Cahit Zarifoğlu and the poet Erdem Bayazıt and edited the literary pages of
local newspapers during his years at high school. His first poem was published
in the review Hamle in 1957, and his later poems and articles appeared
in the reviews Yeni İstiklal, Diriliş and Edebiyat, and in Mavera,
of which he was one of the founders in 1976. His works were published in the
reviews Edebiyat Ortamı, Yedi İklim, Hece, Ay Vakti in his later years.
He wrote daily and weekly in the newspapers Yeni Devir, Millî Gazete Zaman,
Tutanak and Sağduyu with the pen name Bilal Davut, as well as his
real name.
He is a member of the same school as his
contemporaries Cahit Zarifoğlu, Erdem Bayazıt and Akif İnan, nevertheless, an
air of grief prevails in his poetry. He is known for his poems where he
reflects lyricism with a skillfully established inner harmony, particularly in
poems that he wrote after he lost his son Kerem in an accident. He collected
the Writers Union of Turkey Poetry Award in 1996 with Yalnızlık Gide Gide
(Loneliness as I Go On).
WORKS:
POETRY: Güneş Donanması (The Sun Navy,
1974), Yalnızlık Gide Gide (Loneliness as I Go On, 1996), Şiirler /
Bütün Şiirleri: 1975-1999 (Poems/All Poems: 1975-1999, 1999), Bütün
Şiirler (All Poems, 2002).
ESSAY: İnsan ve İslâm (Man and Islam,
1982), Batılılaşma Üzerine (On Westernization, 1983), Devlet ve İnsan
(State and Man, 1986), Yakın Çağ Batı Dünyası ve Türkiye'ye Yansımaları
(The Western World in Recent Times and its Reflections on Turkey, 1986).
RESEARCH: Şiirin Geçitleri (Trajectories
of Poetry, 1996).
MEMOIR: Unutulmuşluklar (Being Forgotten, 1999).