Essayist (b. 10 July 1965,
Nazilli / Aydın). He attended the Toygar Primary School, Sümer Elementary
School and graduated from Nazilli Industrial Vocational High School. He started
his graduate education at Gazi University, Faculty of Technical Education and
completed at Dokuz Eylül University, Buca Faculty of Education, Department of Turkish Language and
Literature (1988) in 1989. He worked at a publishing house for a time. He
worked as a teacher of literature in state schools for a short time and as a
teacher and manager at a private school for twelve years. He discontinued his
postgraduate education without completing his thesis that he had started at
Marmara University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Modern Turkish
Language in 1989.
Beginning in the review Kardelen (Samsun) in 1987, his essays
and research have been published in various reviews. He founded the review Kırkikindi (1989, 3 issues) with his
friends in İzmir in 1989. He was the culture and art pages editor of the
newspaper Zaman from 1992 and wrote
weekly articles under the title Gül Saati (Rose Hour). He was selected
as the Essayist of the Year by the Writers Union of Turkey with his work Günlük Güneşlik Şarkılar (The Joyous
Songs) in 1996.
WORKS (Collection):
Mavisini Yitirmiş Yaşamak (Living With Lost
Blue, 1995), Günlük Güneşlik Şarkılar (The Joyous Songs, 1996), Günün Ötesi (The Other Side
of the Day, 1997), İnce Sözler
(Sensitive Words, 1999), Periyi
Uyandırmak (Waking Up the Fairy, 2000), Gün
Sarısı (The Yellow of the Day, 2001), Söz
Işıldağı (The Word Projector, 2003), Bir Bahçe Düşü (A Dream of a Garden, 2005).
