Hüseyin Atlansoy

Poet (b. 1962, Mihalıççık / Eskişehir). He attended primary and high school in Eskişehir. Later, he studied in Boğaziçi University, Faculty of Basic Sciences for some time and graduated from İstanbul University, Faculty of Literature, Department of Sociology.

His poems were published in Yedi İklim, Yönelişler, İkindi Yazıları, Şiir Atı, Kayıtlar, İpek Dili, Albatros, Dergâh, Bürde and Hece reviews after 1982. In 1990, Atlansoy was elected the poet of the year by the Writers Union of Turkey with his poem Şehir Konuşmaları (Urban Conversations).

WORKS:

İntihar İlacı (Medicine for Suicide, 1985), Balkan Çıkmazında Efendilik Tarihi (History of Mastership in the Balkan Dead-End, 1987), Şehir Konuşmaları (Urban Conversations, 1990), İlk Sözler (First Words, 1998), Kaçak Yolcu (Fugitive Passenger, 1998).