Poet and writer (b. 1919, İstanbul – d. 17 November 1982, İzmir). He
graduated from Ankara State Conservatoire, Department of Theatre, Advanced
Education (1945). For a long time he worked as an actor at the Ankara State
Theatre, as a broadcaster on Ankara Radio, as a director at the İzmir State
Theatre and as a lecturer at 9th Eylül University, Department of
Theatre.
He
published his poems from 1938 firstly in the magazines Servet-i Fünûn and Uyanış, then Varlık, Adımlar, Pınar, Yığın, Kaynak, Yeryüzü, Yeni Sanat, Seçilmiş Hikâyeler, Ataç, and Yeditepe. Because of a poem published in
the magazine Yeryüzü, he was put on
trial due to a violation of article 142 of the Turkish Penal Code but then was
acquitted. He was one of the socialist poets of the 1940’s generation. At first
his poems took socialist thought as a theme but as the time passed, they turned
into more individual, introverted poems. Some of his poems have a certain humor
and satire. With his translation Bir
Karakter Yaratmak (Creating a Character), he received the 1982 Yazko
Encouragement Award. From 1984 the Suat Taşer Play Award has been held in his memory.
WORKS:
POETRY: Bir
(One, 1942,1943, with Fehmi Giray, 1943), Hürriyet
(Liberty, with Ömer Faruk Toprak, 1945), Merhaba
(Hello, 1952), Haraç Mezat (Going,
Going, Gone! 1954), İkinci Kurtuluş (Second Independence, 1960), Hayret Bey’in Serüveni (The Adventure of
Hayret Efendi, 1968), Evrende Ellerimiz
(Our Hands in the Universe, 1970),
PLAY: Aşk ve
Barış (Love and Peace, 1961), Deli
Dumrul (Crazy Dumrul, 1962).
RESEARCH: Üç Duvarlı Bir Dünya
(A World Having Three Walls, 1951), Tiyatro
Meseleleri (Issues of the Theatre,
1953), Bir Dünya ki (What a World!
1956), Aktörlük Sanatı (The Art of
Being an Actor, 1964), Komedi Sanatı
(The Art of Comedy, 1964), Sahneye Koyma
Sanatı (The Art of the Performance of a Play, 1967), Bir Aktör Hazırlanıyor (An Actor is Coming, 1967), Bir Karakter
Yaratmak (Creating a Character, from
Stanislavski, 1981), Konuşma Eğitimi (Speech Education, 1987). Also
many of his translations have been published.