Poet and writer (b. 1926, Ceyhan
village / Lüleburgaz). After he completed his secondary and higher education in
Kepirtepe and Hasanoğlan Village Institutes, he worked as a teacher and
traveling head teacher beginning in 1946. He worked as a Turkish teacher in
secondary and high schools in İstanbul from 1960. Participating in the
foundation of the Teachers Union of Turkey, he became a member of the general
management committee and representative of the Marmara Region. He is one of the well-known writers who
received his education in Village Institutes.
His poems
and stories featured in journals beginning with Köy Enstitüleri Dergisi (1945) and later Yücel, Varlık, Yeditepe, İmece, Yansıma, Yeni Dergi, Gösteri,
Yazko-Edebiyat. He received the 1970
Turkish Radio and Television Corporation Art Awards Competition Achievement
Award with his story Elif Diye Bir Türkü
(A Folk Song Called Elif). He won the second prize in the 1974 Sabahattin Ali
Story Competition with his story Ayarlanmak
(To Be Arranged) and won the 1979 Orhan Kemal Novel Award with his novel Mehmetçik Mehmet (Soldier Mehmet).
WORKS:
POETRY: Ahlat Ağacı (Wild Pear Tree, 1953), Karşılama (Meeting, 1958), Nisan Haritası (April Map, 1960), Kocakent (Big City, 1963), Pıtraklı Memleket (Homeland with Gnarled
Trees, 1969), Gök Ekin (Green Crop,
1975), Meşe Seli (Flood of Oaks,
1982), Günler Tuz Rengi (Days are the
Color of Salt, 1986), Sis Dağının Başında
Borana Bak Borana (Look at the Snowstorm on Misty Mountain, 1990), Eylülün Kızgın Soluğu (Angry Breath of
September, 1996), Koca Bir Troya Dünya
(The World is a Huge Troy, 1997), Pir
Sultan Ölür Ölür Dirilir (Pir Sultan Dies, Dies and is Revived, 2002).
STORY-MEMOIR: Aç Harmanı (Harvest
of the Hungry, 1962), Zeytin Ülkesi (Country
of Olives, 1964, new edition with the name Yüreğin Sesi-Zeytin Ülkesi -
Voice of the Heart, Country of Olives, 1983), Sürgünler (Exiles, 1970), Elif
Diye Bir Türkü (A Folk Song Called Elif, 1976), Dilsiz Oyunu (Dumb Play, 1983), Yasaklı
(Prohibited, 1987), Hoşçakal Dünya
(Bye World, 1990), Giz Kokan Suskunluk
(Silence Smelling of Secrets, 1991), Aç
Harmanı (Harvest of the Hungry, 2002).
NOVEL: Mehmetçik Mehmet
(Soldier Mehmet, 1979).
FOLK
TALE: Kuş Dili (Bird Language, 1968),
Akça Kız (Whitish Girl, 1970), Aç Kapıyı Bezirgan Başı (Open the Door
Head Merchant, 1974), Evvel Evvelken
(When Past was Past, 1974), Yağmur Gelini
(Rain Bride, 1974), Boyalı Irmak (Colored
River, 1979), Armutlu Tarla (Pear
Orchard, 1979), Söğütler Ses Verince
(When Willows Make Sound, 1981), Çiçeklerin
Dili (Language of the Flowers, 1992), Güneşin
Türküsü (Song of the Sun, 1992).
OTHER WORKS: Çarığımı
Yitirdiğim Tarla (The Field Where I Lost My Shoes, village notes, 1955), Tonguç Yolu (Tonguç Road, essays, 1974),
Sabahattin Eyüboğlu ve Köy Enstitüleri
(Sabahattin Eyüboğlu and the Village Institutes, 1990), Özgürleşme Eğilimleri ve Köy Enstitüleri (Liberalization Tendencies
and Village Institutes, 1990), Devrimci
Eğitim - Köy Enstitüleri (Revolutionist Education- Village Institutes,
1999).
REFERENCE: Memet Fuat (Yeditepe, 15.3.1954), Oktay Akbal (Vatan Sanat Eki, 7.2.1954), Mehmet Kaplan / Cumhuriyet Devri Türk Şiiri (1973, s. 488-491), İhsan Işık / Yazarlar Sözlüğü (1990, 1998) - Türkiye Yazarlar Ansiklopedisi (2001, 2004) – Encyclopedia of Turkish Authors (2005) - Resimli ve Metin Örnekli Türkiye Edebiyatçılar ve Kültür Adamları Ansiklopedisi (2006, gen. 2. bas. 2007) - Encyclopedia of Turkey’s Famous People (2013), İmece / Kırkıncı Sanat Yılı Özel Sayısı (26.12.1993), Damla / 40. Sanat Yılı Özel Sayısı (7.5.1993), Dünya Kitap (Özel sayı ve ayrıntılı kaynakça, Nisan 1996), Mehmet Cimi / O Yıllar Dile Gelse (1997), Bedrettin Aykın / Başaran’ın dünyayı kucaklayan türküsü (Cumhuriyet Kitap, 2 .7.1998), Behçet Necatigil / Edebiyatımızda İsimler Sözlüğü (18. bas. 1999), Şükran Kurdakul / Şairler ve Yazarlar Sözlüğü (gen. 6. bas. 1999), TBE Ansiklopedisi (2001), Hasan Akarsu / Pir Sultan Abdal Dirilir (Cumhuriyet Kitap, 20.6.2002), İbrahim Oluklu / Seni Yazarak (Balıkesir, 2003), Tanzimattan Günümüze Türk Şiiri Antolojisi (2002), Hasan Akarsu / Şiirler-Den / İzler (2004), Berfin Bahar-Özel Bölüm (Eylül 2004).
