Poet
(b. 7 December 1919, İstanbul - d. 17 March 1978, Ankara). After receiving
elementary education at İstanbul İstiklal High School and Ankara Gazi High
School (1938) he completed his studies at Istanbul University, Faculty of
Medicine (1944). He worked as a doctor at Ankara Numune Hospital, Turhal
Sugar Factory (1948), the General Directorate of the Ankara Sugar Factory
(1959) and the Etimesgut Sugar Factory.
He
is famous for his poems, essays and radio broadcasts. Beginning in 1938, his
poems were published in the reviews İnkılapçı Gençlik, Yücel, Ülkü, Millet,
İstanbul and after
WORKS:
POETRY: Bir Çocuk
Bahçesinde (At a Children’s Playground, 1941), Bağbozumu Sofrası (Dinner Table after the Harvest, 1944), Çocuklar Gemisi (Ship of Children,
1946), Yanık Hava (Flaming Air,
1951), Haziran Defteri (Notebook of
June, 1955), Yurdumdan (From My Land,
1960), Bağımsızlık Gülü (Rose of
Independence, 1965), Sakarya Meydan
Savaşı (Sakarya War, 1970), Buğday,
Kadın, Gül ve Gökyüzü (Wheat, Woman and Sky, 1979).
ESSAY-ARTICLE: Devrimcinin
Takvimi (Calendar of the Revolutionists, 1982), Ya Bağımsızlık Ya Ölüm (Either Independence or Death, 1964), Köy Öğretmenine Mektuplar (Letters to
the Teacher of the Village, 1964), Atatürkçü
Olmak (Being A Kemalist, 1966), Atatürk
ve Kurtuluş Savaşı (Atatürk and the Independence War, radio broadcasts,
1969-72), Balım Kız Dalım Oğul
(Daughter My Honey, Son My Branch, 1971), Halk
Önderi Atatürk (Atatürk, the People’s Leader, 1972), Cumhuriyet Ağacı (Tree of the Republic, 1973), Dram Kaynağı Olarak Söylev (Speech as A Source of Tragedy, 1980).
FOLK TALE: Sevgi
Elması (Diamond of Love, folk story of Tahir and Zühre, 1972).
CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: İyi İnsan Mehmet Ali (Good Man Mehmet Ali, 1964), Üvey Ana (Stepmom, 1964), Sihirli Değnek (Magic Stick, play, 1941). His poems were collected in 2 volumes under the title Bütün Şiirleri (All Poems) by Vecihi Timuroğlu in 1978 after his death.
