Poet and investigative
writer. He was born in Yakacık Village/Oğuzeli/Gaziantep, in 1947. He completed
primary school in Yakacık. He completed his secondary and high school education
in Gaziantep. After, he worked in public institutions for a long time; he got
retired with his own will when he was the Chef of Gaziantep Social Services
City Management in 1998.
He published his first
poems in Yeni Asya and Hergün newspapers. During the 1980 coup d’état these newspapers were closed,
so he was tended towards local newspapers and literature art journals. He was
in the editorial board of some literature and art journals, he wrote poems and
research articles in these journals. He had a column in (Gaziantep) Haber
newspaper. He published literature and art papers in some newspapers. He has
many prizes with his poems. Although, he had the agencies of Maki and Bizim Ece
Journals in Gaziantep.
“He has poems; I have read for several times. Even
though he has prose writings, researches, folkloric works, I knew him as a poet
and I liked him. He is natural. Pure language, sincere sayings are elements which
can be seen in his every poem. Both in free norm and syllabic meter poems,
sayings of a master poet’s can be seen clearly.
In any books of Ahmet
Ayaz, you will find a social rebellion against social disorder, ridicule in
many of his poems. His poems on love amaze the reader.”
(Ertuğrul Karakoç)
WORKS:
POETRY: Yankılı Sesler (1993), Doğduğum
Gündenberi (1994), Son Mektuplar (2000), Hüzün ve Rüya
(2002), Bir Başka Rüya ve Sızı (2004), Kavgam Barış İçin (2006).
COMPILATION: Antep Şiirleri (1998).
RESEARCH: Gaziantep’le Kültür Sanat ve Edebiyat’ta İz
Bırakanlar (2003),
STORY: Elveda İstanbul (2005).
REFERENCE: İhsan Işık (TEKAA, 2009).
