Poet (b. 21 February 1956, Aydın). Her full name is Lale
Zehra Müldür. She attended Teşvikiye Nilüfer Hatun Primary School (1967),
Arnavutköy American Girls College (1972), Robert College (1975) and then
enrolled in the Middle East Technical University, Department of Electronics and
Department of Economics, studying one year in each department. She graduated
from Manchester University, Department of Economics in the United Kingdom
(1980). She completed her graduate studies on literary sociology at Essex
University (1983). She continued her doctorate studies in Belgium and returned
to Turkey in 1986. She worked on the production of the program Yarım Elma
(Half Apple) for the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation.
Her first poem Kadın
Portreleri (Portraits of Women) was published in the review Yeni İnsan
(March, 1980) and her articles in Radikal 2, beginning in 1999, and
other poems, articles and translations in the reviews Yeni İnsan, Gösteri,
Defter, Şiir Atı, Oluşum, Mor Köpük, Yönelişler, Yedi İklim, İzlenim, Öküz,
Kaşgar, Sombahar, etc. Some of her poems have been set to music. A
collection of her poems was published in Dublin (Poetry Ireland, 1998) with the
title Water Music. The poems she wrote on the paintings of the French
artist Colette Deblé was published by the French Institute in French, with the
title Yağmur Kızı Böyle Diyor (So Says the Daughter of Rain). She wrote
articles in the newspaper Radikal for some time.
WORKS (Poetry):
Uzak
Fırtına (Distant
Storm, 1988), Voyıcır 2 (Voyager 2, in collaboration with Ahmet Güntan,
1990), Seriler Kitabı (Series Book, 1991), Kuzey Defterleri (Northern
Notebooks, 1992), Buhurumeryem (Cyclamen, 1995), Divanü lügat-it-Türk
(Dictionary of Turkish Languages, 1998), Anemon -Toplu Şiirler 1988-1998
(Anemon – Collected Poems 1988-1998, 2001).
