Poet and writer (b. 1956, Islahiye / Gaziantep). He has
used the pen names Abbas, Yahya and Mehmet. He attended primary school in
Islahiye and Kahramanmaraş İmam Hatip High School (1973). He graduated from
Erzurum Atatürk University, Faculty of Administration (1977). He worked for the
National News Agency (1978) for a while and after his military
service he worked as a manager in a private accounting firm (1980-89). He
became a manager at Al Baraka Finance Corporation in 1989. For two years, he was
a member of the Repertoire Committee of the İstanbul Municipal Theatres.
His
first four poems, Örtü (Cover), Fanus (Lantern), Namlu Çağı (Gun
Era) and Kuşatma (Surrounding) were published in the March 1976
issue of the review Edebiyat, managed by Nuri Paladil. Later on, he
published essays and poems in Edebiyat (1976-83), Yedi İklim
(also a founder, 1987-89, 1992) and Hece. His later essays attracted a
lot of attention. He diversified into writing plays from 1995. He won the
Writers Union of Turkey Award in 1991 with Sanat and İntihar (Art and
Suicide) and the Kombassan Group Special Award in 2000 with Sıcaktı ve
Üşüyorlardı (It Was Hot and They Were Cold). He concentrated on the theatre
after 1995. His plays, Bir Gece Bekçisi
Daha (One More Night Watchman) and Sandık Odası (The
Storeroom), were staged by the İstanbul Municipal Theatres in 1998. He
started mountain climbing in 1997 carrying just a backpack and in a short time
he had climbed the greatest mountains in Turkey and in 2004 he climbed the
Demavend Mountain in Iran and after continued as a licensed, professional
climber.
His first book, which features collective impressions of
mountaineering, was published by İz Press in 2002, Kayıp Dağcının Düşleri (The Dreams of a Lost Climber). He is a
member of the Writers Union of Turkey.
WORKS:
POETRY: Gözlerinde Kitap Yankısı (The Echo of
the Books in Your Eyes, 1981), Yüzün
Tarihi (The History of the Face, 1989).
ESSAY: Sanat ve İntihar (Art and Suicide,
1991), Kara Yazılar (Black Writing,
1995), Kayıp Dağcının Düşleri (The
Dreams of The Lost Climber, 2002).
PLAY: Morgda Bir İnsan Sıcaklığı (A Humane
Warmth in The Morgue, 1995), Bir Gece
Bekçisi Daha (One More Night Watchman, 1995), Sandık Odası (The Storeroom, 1995), Sığınak (The Shelter, 1996), Kılavuz
(The Guide, 1997), Hünkarın Son
Günleri (The Last Days of the Sultan, 1998).
SCREENPLAY:
Sıcaktı ve Üşüyorlardı (It Was Hot
and They were Getting Cold, 1999).
REFERENCE: 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), Osman Bayraktar / Sanat ve İntihar (Yedi İklim, Haziran 1992), Muhsin Bostan / ‘Sanat ve İntihar’ı Okurken (Kayıtlar, Temmuz 1992), Necip Tosun / ‘Kara Yazılar’da Beyaz Düşünceler (Yeni Şafak, Eylül 1995), İbrahim Kardeş / Bir Övgü Yazısı (Yeni Şafak, 16.9.1995), Arif Ay / Morgta Bir İnsan Sıcaklığı (Yeni Şafak, 9.4.1996), Ebubekir Eroğlu / İnsan Sıcaklığı (Zaman, 28.1.1996), Süleyman Çelik / İdeal Gerçekçiliğe Dair (Yeni Şafak, 5.10.1996), A. B. / Sığınak (Hece sayı: 2, Şubat 1997).Osman Bayraktar / İçimizdeki Duvarlar (Yedi İklim, Mart 1998), Hüseyin Sorgun / Düş ile Gerçek Arasında Yolculuk (Yedi İklim, Haziran-Ağustos 2002), Yasin Doğru / Dağları Olan Bir Şair Şiirleri Olan Bir Dağcı (Yedi İklim, Haziran-Ağustos 2002), İhsan Işık / Resimli ve Metin Örnekli Türkiye Edebiyatçılar ve Kültür Adamları Ansiklopedisi (2006, 2007).
