Poet
and writer (b. 1927, Bitlis). He attended the Ankara Mimar Kemal Primary
School, the Ankara Atatürk High School (1947), and graduated from Ankara
University, Faculty of Language, History and Geography, Department of Turkology
(1953). He began to work as a journalist in his student years and as a
reporter, proofreader, writer and editor-in-chief in the newspapers Ulus, Tercüman, Hürriyet, and Son Saat and
in the review Kaynak. He served as
press secretary at the Turkish Employers Syndicate Confederation (1964). While
he was working for the Bottle and Glass General Directorate as a press
councilor, he retired (1978). In the following years, he worked as a press
advisor in the private sector and as a teacher at private institutions He is a
member of the Professional
Association of Scientific and Literary Work Owners of Turkey
and the Writers Union of Turkey.
His poems have been published in the reviews and
newspapers Kaynak, Aile, Ülkü, Yeditepe,
Varlık, Türk Dili, Seçilmiş Hikâyeler, Tercüman, Cumhuriyet, Çağrı, Tarla and Maya. His articles have been translated
into Romanian, Serbian, Arabic, Armenian, English, German and Hebrew.
WORKS:
POETRY:
Üç Otuz Para (Three-Thirty Money,
1950; with articles about him, 1969), Bir
Martı Öttü (A Sea Gull Cried, 1964), Uzak
Maviler (Distant Blues, 1981).
NOVEL:
İstasyonlar (Stations, 1954), Vapur Düdükleri (Ship Siren, 1962), Şarkısız Dünyaların Orkinosları (Songless
Tunas of the World, 1977).
MEMOIR:
Dağlara Giden Yollar (Ways Going to
the Mountains, 1974).
AUTOBIOGRAPHY:
Nazif Akıncı (Nazif Akıncı, 1980).
