Ülkü Tamer

Yazar, Şair

Ölüm
01 Nisan, 2018
Eğitim
Robert College

Poet  and writer (b. 1937, Gaziantep- d. 18 March 2018, Istanbul). After attending primary school in his hometown, he graduated from Robert College in İstanbul (1958). He left the Institute of Journalism and acted in private theatres and did translation. While he was working for Milliyet Publications, he managed the magazines Milliyet Çocuk, Milliyet Sanat and Karacan Publications and Sanat Olayı (first edition, 1 January, 1980) after a change of ownership.

His first work was Duygular Konuşuyor (Feelings Are Talking, 1948) which was a school play with one scene which he wrote at a very early age. His first poem was published in the magazine Kaynak (1954). In the following years, his poems and translations were published in the magazines Pazar Postası, Yelken, Yeditepe, a, Yeni Dergi and in similar magazines. He was known for his poems in the style of the “Second New” movement. He was one of the columnists in Radikal Cumartesi.

He received the Turkish Language Association Translation Award with his translation Mitologya (Mythology) by Edith Hamilton, 1967 the Yeditepe Poetry Prize with his book İçime Çektiğim Hava Değil Gökyüzüdür (The Thing I Breath is not Air, It is the Sky, 1966) and in 1991 the Yunus Nadi Story Award with his book Alleben Öyküleri (Alleben Stories).

WORKS:

POETRY: Soğuk Otların Altında (Under the Cold Bushes, 1959), Gök Onları Yanıltmaz (The Sky does not Surprise Them, 1960), Ezra ile Gary (Ezra and Gary, 1962), Virgülün Başından Geçenler (The Events the Comma Experienced, 1965), İçime Çektiğim Hava Değil Gökyüzü (The Thing I Breath in is not the Air It is the Sky, 1966), Sıragöller (Lakes in a Row, 1974), Ne Biliyorum (What Do I Know, 1979), Seçme Şiirler (Selected Poems, selections from his poems, 1981), Yanardağın Üstündeki Kuş (The Bird Over the Volcano, collected poems, 1986), Ben Sana Teşekkür Ederim (I Thank You, 2003).

SHORT STORY: Alleben Öyküleri (Alleben Stories, 1991), Günışığı Hoşçakal (Goodbye Daylight, 2000).

MEMOIR: Alleben Anıları (Alleben Memories, 1997), Yaşamak Hatırlamaktır (Living is Remembering, 2002), Bir Gün Ben Tiyatrodayken (One Day While I Was at the Theatre, 2003).

CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: Şeytanın Altınları (Gold of the Devil, 1989).

ANTHOLOGY-COLLECTION: Çağdaş Latin Amerika Şiir Antolojisi (Contemporary Latin American Poetry Anthology, 1982), Hoca Nasreddin Der Ki… (Nasreddin Hoca Says…, selection, 1999). 

REFERENCE: Anıl Meriçelli / Kurşun Yerine Gelincik (Papirüs, sayı: 5, 1966), Mehmet Kaplan / Cumhuriyet Devri Türk Şiiri (1973), Cemal Süreya / Şapkam Dolu Çiçekle içinde “Suçsuzluğun Şiiri” (1976), Ahmet Necdet / Modern Türk Şiiri: Yönelimler Tanıklıklar Örnekler (1993), Ahmet Ümit / Yaşamak Hatırlamaktır (Radikal Kitap, 14.6.2002), Yakup Altıyaprak / İkinci Yeninin Kolejli Yüzü: Ülkü Tamer (Kırklar, sayı: 9, 2004), İkinci Yeni şiirin usta temsilcilerinden Ülkü Tamer yaşamını yitirdi (aydinlik.com.tr, 01.04.2018).

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