Kemal Burkay

Education
Ankara University Faculty of Law
Other Names
Ali Dicleli, C. Aladağ, Baran, Hıdır Murat

Poet. He was born in Kızılkale village / Tunceli (1937). He used the pseudonyms Ali Dicleli, C. Aladağ, Baran, Hıdır Murat. He graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Law (1960). He worked as a financial accountant, teacher and lawyer in Elazığ and Tunceli. He went abroad and participated in the political and cultural activities of Kurdish nationalists. His poems were published in Çıra (editor, Elazığ, 1965, 6 issues) and in journals of Papirüs, Dost, Varlık

WORKS:

POETRY: Prangalar (1967), Dersim (1975), Özgürlük ve Yaşam (1993), Yakılan Şiirin Öyküsü (1993), Kürtçe Rubaîler (1996), Can Taşır Dicle (1998). 

NOVEL: Yaşamanın Ötesinde (Serialized in Vatan newspaper, 1964, not published as a book).

REFERENCE: Hüseyin Akar / Dersim’den Portreler (1999), Behçet Necatigil / Edebiyatımızda İsimler Sözlüğü (ed. 18 1999), Şükran Kurdakul / Şairler ve Yazarlar Sözlüğü (exp. ed. 6, 1999), TBE Ansiklopedisi (2001), Veysel Gültaş / Kadı Burhaneddin’den Günümüze Hukukçu Şairler Antolojisi (2003), İhsan Işık (TEKAA, 2009).

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