Writer and
translator. He attended the
He translated
many works for Aydınlık Publications especially in the period between the
second half of the 1960s and 1980. He translated or contributed to the
translation of many works by Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Mao Zedung. In the
years when specialist reports were prepared in order to ban many books, most of
these translations could only be published under pen names. In addition to
translating for various publishers, he took part in the “Aydınlık (illumination) Movement”
before 1980. Here, he took part in a collaborative work taking care to
translate and publish the basic works of Marxism without any mistakes or
omissions. He worked in the art and culture departments of the review Halkın Sesi and the newspaper Aydınlık. The total of translations
under his own name is thirty and under pen names total nearly fifty. The
publishing houses such as E, Can, Bilim ve Sosyalizm, Cem, Payel, Koral, Afa,
Remzi, Hür Yayın, P Kitaplığı, İletişim published his translations and reviews
such as Yeni Dergi, Türk Solu, Militan,
Doğrultu, Türk Dili, Sanat Dünyamız, Aries, Younique, Artimento published
some of his translations and other works. He received the Azra Erhat
Translation Award given by Yazko with the translation of George Thomson's work Tarih Öncesi Ege (Prehistoric Aegean).
WORKS
(Translation-Compilation):
Kızgın Ova (Hot Valley, by
Juan Rulfo), İtalyan Kızı (The
Italian Girl, by Iris Murdoch), Kıtlık (The
Famine, by Liam O'Flaherty), Düğün (The
Wedding, by İsmail Kadare), İnsanın Özü (The
Core of Human, by George Thomson),
Tarihöncesi Ege (Prehistoric Aegean, by George Thomson), Alçaklığın Evrensel Tarihi (The Universal History of the Lowness,
by J. L. Borges), Yedi Gece (Seven
Nights, by J. L. Borges), Atlas (Atlas,
by J.L.Borges), Üveyanneye Övgü (Praise
to the Step Mother, by M. V. Llosa),
Masalcı (The Storyteller, by M. V. Llosa), Tiziano Su Perisi ile Çoban (Tiziano Water Fairy and the
Shepherd, by John Berger), Duveen
Antikacıların Piri (Duveen Master of Antique Dealers, by N. Behrman), Yatağında Yalnız mısın? (Are You Alone
in Your Bed?, Love and Aspiration Poems from Old Japanese Poets, 2002), Aşk Olsun (Well Done, collection of
world love poems, 2005).