Poet and writer
(b. 1924, İstanbul – d. 8 November 1979). He started his elementary education
at Robert College and İstanbul High School for Boys and graduated from Boğaziçi
Private High School (1945). He worked only as a writer. He often traveled
abroad and lived in France for a time. He died in traffic accident near Bolu.
His poetry and short stories that he wrote with the influence of the “Strange
Movement” were published in the reviews and newspapers such as Kaynak, Yeditepe, Nokta of which he was one of the founders, Ataç, Yeni Edebiyat, Yansıma and Cumhuriyet.
He followed a socialist realist style in his poetry. His works were
published in Russian, Czech and Bulgarian. From 1980, after his death, a poetry
award and a short story award was established by his family in his memory.
WORKS:
POETRY: Oluş (Being, 1946), Yaşadığımız Devre Dair Şiirler (Poems
of Our Time, 1951), Cüceler Çarşısı (Dwarfs’
Bazaar, 1955), Yitikler Kapısı (Gate
of the Lost, 1960), Güneş Ülkesi (The
City of the Sun, 1964), Hey Sen Amerikalı
(Hey You American, 1967), Köprübaşı (Foothold,
all poems, 1968), Beklenen Sabah (The
Expected Morning, selections from his poetry, 1978).
SHORT STORY: Yaşama Duvarı (The
Wall of Living, 1964), Almanya-Almanya (Germany
– Germany, 1965), Çıplak (Naked,
1966), Akrep Üretim Çiftliği (Scorpion
Producing Farm, 1968), Çıplak (Naked,
short stories in his four books, 1970),
Boğaların Ölümü (Death of the Bulls, 1975).
TRAVEL LITERATURE: Sovyetler
Birliği'nden Batıya (From the Soviet Union to the West, 1966), Üçüncü Bir Dünya (A Third World, 1974), Almanya Beyleri ile Portekiz Bahçeleri (German
Princes and Portuguese Gardens, 1975).
ESSAY: Türkiye'deki Amerika (America
In Turkey, in two volumes, 1967, in one volume, 1969).