Poet and writer
(b. 24 February 1940, İzmir). He attended primary and elementary school in
İzmir (1957) and then went to
His poems, short stories, critiques and translations were published in
various reviews and newspapers in
WORKS:
POETRY: Koca Sapmalarda Biz Vardık
(We Were There At the Huge Deviation, 1968), Umut Dolayları (About Hope, 1969), Aydınlık Kanayan Çiçek (The Flower that Bleeds Luminously, 1975), İncindiğin Yerdir Gurbet (Away from
Home is Where You’re Hurt, 1979), Saat
Ankara - Takvim Dizeleri (Time is Ankara – Almanac Verses, 1981), Sen Dolayları (About You, 1983; with
the title Sen Dolayları, Sevgi Dolayları, Umut Dolayları – About You, About
Love, About Hope, 1992), Karanlıktan
Yakınma (Complaining About the Darkness, 1988), Dost Dolayları (About Friends, 1990), Mutluluk Şiirleri (Poems of Happiness, album, 1995), Somut Şiir (Concrete Poetry, 1996).
SHORT STORY: Oturma İzni (Well
Fitting Footprint 1977), Güz Rengi (Autumn’s
Color, 1998).
ANTHOLOGY: Modern Turkische Lyrik (Modern
Turkish Lyric Poetry, anthology of poetry, 1971), Die Wasser Sin Weise Als Wir (The Water that’s Whiter than Us,
1973).
CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: Ağaca
Takılan Uçurtma (The Kite Stuck in the Tree, anthology for children, 1974), Utku (Victory, in six languages, 1974), Aya Uçan Minare (The Minaret That Flew
to the Moon, novel, 1980), Oktay,
Atatürk'ü Öğreniyor (Oktay Learns about Atatürk, novel, 1983), Rosen im Frost (Roses of Frost, 1982), Balık Suyu Sever (Fish Love Water,
short story, 1987), Balina'nın Bebeği (The
Whale’s Baby, short story, 1988), Kemal
ile Burak-Cennet Ülkesine Yolculuk (Kemal and Burak-Travel to the Land of
Eden, novel, 1998).
NOVEL: Ben Aranıyor (Me is
Wanted, 1989).
ESSAY-INTERVIEW: Almanya Üzerine (On
Germany, 1995).
RESEARCH: Behçet
Necatigil-Gedichte (Behçet Necatigil-Poems, 1972), Die Dramaturgie des Einakters (The Dramaturgy of One-Act Plays,
1973), Mölln ve Solingen'den Sonra
Almanya Üzerine (On Germany after Mölln and Solingen, 1995).
PLAY: Mediha (Mediha, 1992), Ferhat’ın Yeni Acıları (New Agony of
Ferhat, 1993), Haremden Kadın Kaçırma (Kidnapping
a Woman from the Harem, 1993), Köşetaşı (Milestone,
2000).
MONOGRAPH: Kara Bıyıklıların
Aksakalı Demirtaş Ceyhun (Demirtaş Ceyhun, the White Beard of the Black
Mustached, 2004).
He also translated the works of Orhan Veli Kanık into German and the
works of Gert Heidenreich, Bertolt Brecht, Johannes Poethen, Goethe, Lessing,
Rilke and Walter Helmut Fritz into Turkish.