Poet and writer
(b. 1917, Halep - d. 27 November 1994, İzmir). He graduated from Ankara Gazi
Institute of Education (1938) and the Institution for Public Administration for
Turkey and the Middle East (1960). He worked as a Turkish and literature
teacher at Ankara State Conservatory, the Music Instructors School and various
secondary schools, as an advisor for Türk
Ansiklopedisi (Turkish Encyclopedia, 1944) and as an a university lecturer
at Ege University, School of Journalism and at the Faculty of Fine Arts. In the
1983 elections, he was elected as the İzmir parliamentary deputy for the
Populist Party and in 1984 he resigned from this party and joined the
independents. He wasn’t successful in the elections of 1987 and gave up
politics.
His poems,
essays, critical reviews and daily columns were published in the reviews and
newspapers Varlık, Yeni Adam, Ülkü,
Cumhuriyet, Vatan, Vakit, Ulus and Güneş from 1937. Rüştü
Şardağ, who wrote on the literature of Divan* and translated from the
literature of Iran, received the Grand Appreciation Medal of Iran in 1971 for
his translations. Moreover, he was well known for his lyrics and compositions
in the area of Turkish Classical Music.
WORKS:
Edebiyatımızda Vatan Duygusu (The Sense of
Motherland in Our Literature, 1940), Ömer
Hayyam'ın Rubaileri (Quatrains of Omer Khayyam, 2nd edition,
1960), Perişan Baba Taher ve Çift
Beyitleri (Miserable Father Taher and Double Couplets, 1966), Şirazlı Hafez'den Gazeller (Lyric
Poems of Şirazlı Hafez, 1970), Klasik
Divan Şiirimiz (Our Classic Divan* Poetry, research-anthology, 1976), Allah Diyor ki (God Says This,
research, 1976), Şair Sultanlar (Poet
Sultans, 1982), Dâhi Besteci Buhûrizade
Itrî (The Genius Composer Buhûrizade Itrî, 1984), Besmele Şerhi (Explanation of the Invocation
of God, by Hacı Bektaş-ı Veli, 1985), Her
Yönü İle Hacı Bektaş Veli (All Aspects of Hacı Bektaş Veli, 1985), Bütün Yönleriyle Hayyam (All Aspects
of Khayyam, 1985).