Poet (b. 1938, Yenice village /
His
first poem was published in the magazine Şölen
(1956), and his other works were published in Varlık, Çağrı, Çıra and Yelken. In the 1990s he published them
in Söylem (editor-in-chief) and also
in the magazine Ardıçkuşu (owner and editor-in-chief). In 2000,
he won the Hacı Bektaş Veli Poetry Award with his poem Lacivert Akşamlar (The Dark Blue Nights) and in 2003 he received the Hacı Bektaş Veli Short Story
Award with his work Kumsaldaki Altın
(Gold on the Beach).
WORKS
(Poetry):
Bulut Geçti (The
Cloud Has Passed, 1984), Kardereli Yusuf
(Yusuf of Kardere, 1990), Birin
İçindekiler (Those Inside You, 1995), Yalnızlık
Umutları (The Hopes of Loneliness, 1997), Deniz Mantolu Kadın (The Woman with a Sea Coat, 2000), Kar Sıcağı (The Heat of the Snow, 2003).