Cahit Külebi

Şair ve Yazar, Edebiyatçı

Ölüm
20 Haziran, 1997
Eğitim
Istanbul School of Teacher Training Department of Turkish Language and Literature
Diğer İsimler
Mahmut Cahit Külebi, Mahmut Cahit, Cahit Erencan

Poet (b. 1917, Çeltek village / Zile / Tokat - d. 20 June 1997, İstanbul). He attended Niksar Gazi Ahmed Danişmend Primary School (1929), Sivas High School (1936) and graduated from the Department of Turkish Language and Literature of the Istanbul School of Teacher Training (1940). He worked as a teacher of literature at Ankara and Antalya High Schools and Ankara State Conservatory (1942-54) and later as an inspector of Public Education (1956-60). He lived in Sweden from 1960 to 1964 as a cultural attaché and a student inspector. In 1970, he was appointed assistant undersecretary at the Ministry of Culture. After retiring, he served as the Secretary General of the Turkish Language Association (1972-83). His office was terminated with the closure of the association (1983) and Külebi joined the Social Democratic Party and embarked on a career on politics.

His first poems were published in the review Gençlik (1938), beginning in 1938, and later on in Sokak (1940), İnsan (1941), Varlık, Yaratış (1944-46), Türk Dili, Hisar, Söz. In his lyric poems, where he benefited from traditional folk poetry, he tried to reflect the reality of Anatolia. In his last poems, he employed a new style of discourse. The poems in his book Atatürk Kurtuluş Savaşında (Atatürk in the War of Independence) were set to music by Nüvit Kodallı in Atatürk Oratoryosu (Oratorio for Atatürk, 1953). He collected the Turkish Language Association Literature Award in 1955 for his book Yeşeren Otlar (Growing Grass) and the Yeditepe Poetry Prize in 1981 for Yangın (Fire).

WORKS:

POETRY: Adamın Biri (One Man, 1946), Rüzgâr (The Wind, 1949), Atatürk Kurtuluş Savaşında (Atatürk in the War of Independence, 1952), Yeşeren Otlar (Growing Grass, 1954), Süt (Milk, 1965), Şiirler (Poems, all poems, 1969), Sıkıntı (Boredom, 1980), Bütün Şiirleri (All Poems, 1982), Güz Türküleri (Autumn Songs, 1991).

ESSAY: Şiir Her Zaman (Poetry Forever, 1985).

MEMOIR: İçi Sevda Dolu Yolculuk (The Journey Full of Love, 1986). 

REFERENCE: Cahit Kavcar / Külebi Cahit (Türk Ansiklopedisi, c. XXII, s. 418), Oktay Akbal / Şair Dostlarım (1964), Baki Süha Ediboğlu / Bizim Kuşak ve Ötekiler (1968), Cahit Külebi / Çocukluğum (Türkiye Yazıları, Mayıs 1977), Mustafa Kutlu / “Külebi, Cahit” (TDE Ansiklopedisi, c. 4, s. 35-36, 1981), 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) - Ünlü Edebiyatçılar (Türkiye Ünlüleri Ansiklopedisi, C. 4, 2013) - Encyclopedia of Turkey’s Famous People (2013), Enver Ercan / Şair Çünkü Onlar / Cahit Külebi (söyleşi, 1990), Muzaffer Uyguner / Cahit Külebi (1991), Ahmet Oktay / Cumhuriyet Dönemi Edebiyatı 1923-1950 (1993), Vecihi Timuroğlu / Cahit Külebi: Hırçin ve Lirik (1995), Hilmi Yavuz / İnsanlar Mekânlar Yolculuklar (1999), Halil Soyuer / Şair Dostlarım (2004), Mehmet Nuri Yardım / Yazar Olacak Çocuklar (2004).

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