Poet and writer
(b. 1940, Çal / Denizli). He graduated from Bursa Institute of Education,
Department of Turkish Language and Literature. He started to work at the
Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (1971) as a program producer after he
had worked as a teacher at elementary schools in Karaman and Çatalca.
His poetry,
research and interviews have been published in the reviews Yelken, Varlık, Türk Dili and in the newspapers Akşam and Cumhuriyet. He won the Turkish Language Association Award for Radio
and Television in 1982 with the program
Kurtuluş Savaşı'nda Ege (Aegean in the War of Independence) and came third
at the Abdi İpekçi Peace and Friendship Competition in 1986 with Yakın ve Uzak Komşuluğun Şiirleri (The
Poems of Near and Far Neighborhoods). He won the Ömer Seyfettin Short Story
Award in 1990 with his work Tünel Çıkmazı
(Tunnel Dead-end).
WORKS:
POETRY: Sonbahar Durağı (Autumn Stop, 1969), Atatürk'e Şiirler (Poems for Atatürk,
1969), Bağımsızlık Bekçisi (The
Guardian of Independence, 1983), Yakın ve
Uzak Komşuluğun Şiirleri (The Poems of Near and Far Neighborhoods, 1986),
Yorgun Atlısı Akşamın (The Tired Horseman of the Night, 1988).
SHORT STORY: Bir Denizin İki Kıyısı (Two Coasts of
a Sea, 1983), Tünel Çıkmazı (Tunnel
Dead-end, 1990).
RESEARCH: Sait Faik (Sait Faik, 1974), Bir Öykü Ustası Sait Faik Abasıyanık (A
Short Story Master Sait Faik Abasıyanık, 1976), Nesini Söyleyim (What Shall I Say?, 1982).
