Vecihi Timuroğlu

Poet and writer (b. 29 October 1927, Körpınar village / Kangal / Sivas - d. 29 October 2014, Ankara)H. is father was from Maksudan Tribe from Dersim. He attended Ankra Necati Bey Primary School, Diyarbakır Secondary School, graduated from Erzurum High School and Ankara University, Faculty of Language – History – Geography (1949). He worked as a teacher and headmaster at Ankara High Schools, as a consultant for dean and consultant for Ministry then he retired. He was the teacher of Naili Boratav and Orhan Burian in faculty.

His first writing was published in Dicle daily (Diyarbakır), first poem in Varlık Review. His writing works were published in Yücel, Yeni Ortam, Yeditepe, Oluşum, Türkiye Yazıları, Barış that he controlled art pages of, Cumhuriyet, Türk Dili, Evrim directed by him (Ankara, 1975, 6 number), Adam Sanat, Bilim ve Sanat dailies and reviews. He prepared to press the collected poems of Ceyhun Atuf Kansu and Ahmet Kutsi Tecer. He was given 50^th Years of Republic poem Award by Barış Daily, 100^th Year of Atatürk’s Birth Award by Sports Lottery Organization Honorary Award and Golden Medal in 1998 because of his services to literature by Litterateur Union, in 2004 Yunus Emre Culture Association Yunus Emre Award.

WORKS:

ESSAY: Göz Göz Olmak (Be All Holes, 1976), Mektuplar (Letters, 1977), İslâm’da Akıl Üzerine Bir Deneme (An Essay about Mind in Islam, 1996), Şiirin Büyücü Kızı İmge (İmage, the Magician Daughter of Poem, 1994), Aşk Üzerine (About Love, 1994).

POETRY: Bura Yemendir (Here is Yemen, 1978), Tut Beni Sevda Çağırır (Hold Me Love Calls, 1980), Bir Sürgünün Ezgileri (Melody of an Exile, 1983; Melody of an Exile – Dirge of Dersim: 1999), Kardaşım Oğul (My Brother Son, 1988), Merhaba Oğlum (Hi My Son, 1988), Siyah Bir Güldür Ölüm (Death is a Black Rose, 1990), Bülbülleri Ne Yaptılar? (What Did They do to Nightingale, 1994), Büyü (Magic, 1999).

RESEARCH-STUDY: Kurtuluş Sa–vaşçısı Atatürk (Liberation Fighter Atatürk, 1981), Simavne Kadısıoğlu Şeyh Bedrettin ve Varidât (Simavne Kadısıoğlu Şeyh Bedrettin and Varidât 1982), Melih Cevdet - Bilge ve Duyarlı / Kürşat'la Söyleşi (Melih Cevdet – Sagacious and Sensitive, interview with Kürşat, 1994), Cahit Külebi - Hırçın ve Lirik (Cahit Külebi – Shrewish and Lyrical, 1995), Ceyhun Atuf Kansu (Ceyhun Atuf Kansu, 1995), Yazınımızdan Portreler (Portrait from Writing Works of Us, 1995), İnancı Uğruna Öldürülenler (Killed for the Sake of Religion, 1996), Mevlâna (Mevlâna, 1996), Ahmet Kutsi Tecer (Ahmet Kutsi Tecer, 1996), Cahit Külebi (Cahit Külebi, 1997), Melih Cevdet Anday (Melih Cevdet Anday, 1997), Orhan Kemal (Orhan Kemal, 1997), Ahmed Arif (Ahmet Arif, 1997), Dersim Tarihi (History of Dersim, 1997), Türk İslâm Sentezi (Synthesis of Turk-Islam, 1998), Atatürk'ün Söylevi Üzerine (About Speech of Atatürk, 1998), Nasrettin Hoca'nın Düşünce Dünyası (Thought World of Nasrettin Hoca, 1998), Atatürk ve Kuvayı Milliye Şiirleri (Atatürk and National Forces Poem, 1998).

ANTHOLOGY: Atatürk Şiirleri (Poems of Atatürk, 1983)

SHORT STORY: Minnacık Kadın (Teeny-weeny Woman, 1984)

FAIRY-TALE: Fırat’a Masallar (Fairy-tales for Fırat) 

REFERENCE:  TDE Ansiklopedisi (c. 8, 1976-98), Yurt Ansiklopedisi (c. IV, 1982), 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), Cemal Süreya / Uzat Saçlarını Frigya içinde (2. bas., 1992), Mehmed Kemal / Sonbahar Gelirken (Cumhuriyet, 24.9.1994), Alev Coşkun / Atatürk ve Kuvay-i Milliye Şiirleri (Cumhuriyet Kitap, 15.10.1998), Hüseyin Akar / Dersim’den Portreler (1999), Behçet Necatigil / Edebiyatımızda İsimler Sözlüğü (18. bas. 1999), Şükran Kurdakul / Şairler ve Yazarlar Sözlüğü (gen. 6. bas. 1999), TBE Ansiklopedisi (2001), Alim Yıldız / Sivaslı Şairler Antolojisi (2003), Nazire Akbulut-Munise Yıldırım-Bedriye Korkmaz-Alper Akçam / Vecihi Timuroğlu Kitabı (2004), Necati Selamet / ‘Yunus Emre Üzerine Bir Deneme’ (Cumhuriyet Kitap, 20.1.2005), İbrahim Oluklu /  "İçinden Vecihi Timuroğlu Geçen Balıkesirli Bir Anı" (Akatalpa, Eylül 2016).