Halim Uğurlu

Poet (b. 10 March 1926, Taşkent / Konya – d. 25 December 2001, İstanbul). Babür Uğurlu (b. 1955), the poet and Tuluyhan Uğurlu (b.1963), the pianist and composer are his sons. He attended Taşkent Primary School and graduated from Taksim High School for Boys (1945) and İstanbul University, Faculty of Literature, Department of Philosophy (1950). He worked as a publisher and businessman beginning after his formal education.

His first works were published in the reviews Büyük Doğu, Yenilik and Yeşil Giresun and later in Edebiyat Dünyası (1949), Türk Dili, Papirüs, Son Çağ and Güney (1967-72); between 1963-69 in Soyut, Yansıma and Yenilik, and in Türk Dili Dergisi (1992-2001). He won the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation Poetry Award for a single poem in 1970. He was a member of Writers Syndicate of Turkey, the PEN Association of Writers and the Turkish Authors Association.

WORKS (Poetry):

Asya Baharı (Asian Spring, 1950), Değişim (The Change, 1967), Gökağrı (Sky Pain, 1971), Türk'e Destan (A Legend for the Turk, 1974), Zamanların Dili (The Language of Time, 1974), Kan Su Kesince (When Blood Changes to Water, 1979), Kıyamet Çiçekleri (The Flowers of the Apocalypse, 1988), Sözcüklerde Uyanmak (Waking Up in Words, 2000).

      REFERENCE: İhsan Işık / Resimli ve Metin Örnekli Türkiye Edebiyatçılar ve Kültür Adamları Ansiklopedisi (2006, 2007).