Writer and translator (b. 27
December 1934, Van - d. 27 February 1986). After elementary education in
Antakya, Adapazarı and Van (1955) High Schools, he graduated from İstanbul
University, Faculty of Literature, Department of English Language and
Literature 1960). For a while he worked as a lecturer at Erzurum Atatürk
University. Later on, he entered the department that he had graduated from as a
research assistant (1963). He became an associate professor (1972) and
professor (1978). He did research at Nottingham (United Kingdom) and
Konstanz (Germany) Universities. He prepared seminars on translation theory and
organization subjects at Uppsala and West Berlin Universities and he also
taught translation at Boğaziçi University within the Faculty of Literature. He
won the translation award of the Turkish Language Association in 1969 with his
translation of Robinson Crusoe. Göktürk, who published research articles and translations in
various reviews, gave importance to language analysis and debate on styles,
which were characteristics by which he was known. From 1956, his translations
from Western literature and his essays were published in the reviews and
newspapers, Varlık, Türk Dili, Yeni
Ufuklar, Tercüman and Yeni Dergi.
WORKS (Essay-Research):
Edebiyatta Ada (The Island in Literature, 1973), Okuma Uğraşı (The Profession of Reading,
1979), Sözün Ötesinde (Beyond the
Word, 1989), Yenilikçi Sanatta
Öğrenebileceğimiz, Çağdaş Düşünce, İpşiroğlu'ya Saygı (Things that We can
Learn in New Art, Contemporary Thinking, and Respect for İpşiroğlu, 1987),
Ada (Island, the concept of the
Island in English Literature, 1997), Okuma
Uğraşı Yazın Metninin Kavranışında Okur Metin
Yazar (The Profession of
Reading, the Reader, the Text and the Writer in the Understanding of Literary
Text, 2001), Sözün Ötesi (Things
Beyond the Word, 2002).
