Poet
and writer (b. 15 June 1930, Kumanovo / Macedonia). After finishing Tefeyyüz
School in Skopje, he had to leave his education because of World War II. After
the war was over, he graduated from a teacher-training course in Shtip. He
worked as a teacher in Yakimova Village in Shtip during the great immigration
between 1950 and 1960. After graduating from Belgrade University, Department of
Turkology (1954), he worked as editor-in chief and editor at Birlik
newspaper in Skopje for 6 years (1963-1969). In these years, he also published
the review Sesler. He was chosen as President of the Macedonia Union of
Communists in the 1974 and 1978 general assemblies. From 1982 to 1990, the year
in which he retired, he was a member of the Republic of Macedonia Presidential
Committee.
His
poem İlkbahar (Spring) was published in Birlik newspaper. Later,
his articles and poems were published in Birlik newspaper and Sesler,
Sevinç and Bay reviews. Some of his poems for children were
published in an anthology named Yürü Aydınlığa (Walk to the Light) in
1951. He wrote about the villages that were emptied during the mass immigration
in his works. He wrote textbooks in addition to essays and children’s poetry.
He introduced the literary works of young Turkish writers in Skopje, by which
means a lot of new names appeared in the world of literature. He prepared many
poetry and short story anthologies. He received the Turkic World Turkish
Language Honor Award of the Foundation of Services to Turkish Culture in 1999
and the Poet of the Year Award form the Bay Review in 2000.
WORKS:
CHILDREN
POETRY: İlk Adımlar (First Steps,
1952), Köyden Sesler (Sounds from the
Village, 1958), Hoşça Kalın (Good
Bye, 1965), Çocuk Rüyaları (Dreams of
Child, 1991).
SHORT
STORY: Güle Güle (Bye, 1978), Küçük Hanım (Little Lady, 1997), İkindi Güneşi (Sun of Mid-afternoon,
1998).
ESSAY:
Seçme Yazılar (Selected Articles,
1994).
ANTOLOGY-ESSAY:
Türk Masalları (Turkish Fairy Tales,
with Marya Çukanoviç, 1955), Makedonya
Yazarlarından Seçme Çocuk Hikâyeleri (Selected Children’s Short Stories
from Macedonian Authors, 1961), Nazım
Hikmet'ten Şiirler (Poems from Nazım Hikmet, 1983), Gökkuşağı (Rainbow, anthology of short stories, 1985), Yugoslavya Türk Hikâyesi Antolojisi (Anthology
of Yugoslavia Turkish Short Story, 1994), Eski
Yugoslavya'da Çağdaş Türk Şiiri Antolojisi (Contemporary Turkish Poem
Anthology in Old Yugoslavia, 1992), Çağdaş
Makedon Şiirleri Antolojisi (Anthology of Contemporary Macedonian Poems,
1993), Çağdaş Boşnak Edebiyatı Antolojisi
(Anthology of Contemporary Bosnian Literature, 1992). He has translated 5 books
from Turkish to Macedonian (Nazım Hikmet, Oktay Rifat, Melih Cevdet, etc).
In
addition he has prepared many textbooks and reference textbooks.
