Oktay Taftalı

Writer, Poet

Education
İstanbul University Faculty of Letters Department of Philosophy

Poet and writer (b. 1958, Erzurum). He graduated from İstanbul Haydarpaşa High School and İstanbul University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Philosophy. He completed his master study in the same department. In 1974-77 he was interested in boxing in Fenerbahçe Sport Club, before he went to Australia. In 1974-85 He had been a musician in different night club and engagement receptions as a tenor saxophone and clarinet player. In 1985 he went to Vienna for doing philosophy doctorate. Since that time he has actively worked about problems of migrant workers in different foundations. He worked as a social-educationalist at a education station linked with Vienna Province Government.

Since 11980 his poem and writing works has been published in Poetika, Yazko-Edebiyat, Varlık, Yönelişler, Üç Çiçek, Düşler, Oluşum, Somut, Sombahar reviews.

WORKS:

POETRY: Pembe Aralık (Pink December, 1986), Suların Durulduğu Yerde Yalnız Askerler (Lonesome Soldiers in the Place that the Water was Exhausted, 1993), Kan Geleneği (Tradition of Blood, 1998).

ESSAY: Anti Post Modern Bakış / Şiirin Mikro Estetik Eleştirisi (Anti Postmodern View / Micro Aesthetics Critic of Poem, 1993), Medya Çağında Düşünce (Thought in Media Age, 1995), Ahlâk, Estetik, Şiir (Morals, Aesthetic, Poem, 1998).

 

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