Poet and writer,
translator (b. 23 July 1937, Milas / Muğla). His real name is Anıl Boduroğlu.
He attended Erenköy Primary School and graduated from Robert College,
Department of Chemistry (1957) and the London Leather Merchants College (1960).
He published the review İzlerimiz (1955-58) at Robert College, in
collaboration with Ülkü Tamer. For a brief period of time, he worked at the
newspaper Vatan and he gave up journalism in 1961 to work in the leather
industry. He retired in 1998, when he was still the vice chairman of the firm
he worked for and he has been writing and translating books since then. He is a
member of the Writers Syndicate of Turkey and the PEN Association of Writers.
His first poem Yaşanmamış
(Unlived) was published in Varlık in 1955. His poems and
translations were published, beginning in
WORKS:
POETRY: Mayıslara
Açılan Kapı (The Door that Opens to the Months of May, 1964), Yüzün Bir
Yalnızlıktır Yüzümde (Your Face is a Loneliness On My Face, 1970),
İstanbul Gözlerimin Ucunda (İstanbul In the Corners of My Eyes, 1996), Aşk
Şiiri (Love Poem, 1997), İstanbul Gözlerimin Ucunda ve Yeni Şiirler (İstanbul
in the Corners of My Eyes and New Poems, 1999), Aşkın ve Yalnızlığın
Yanısıra (Beside Love and Loneliness, 2005).
COLLECTION: Umutsuz
Bir Aşkın Şairi - Emily Dickinson'dan Seçilmiş Şiirler (Poet of A Desperate
Love - Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson, 1998), Modern İngiliz Amerikan
Şiiri Antolojisi (Anthology of Modern English American Poetry, 1999), Erguvan
(Judas Tree, 2002).
ESSAY: Yılların
Ardından (After All the Years, 1996), Yalnızlık Mevsim Olur (Loneliness
Becomes A Season, 2002).
In addition, he
translated from Hemingway and other famous poets such as Ezra Pound, E.E.
Cummings, W.H. Auden, Yeats and E. Dickinson.
