Writer
and poet (b, 1942, Maraba Town / Elbistan / Kahramanmaraş). He attended Maraba
Village Primary School and secondary school in Elbistan and high school in
Kahramanmaraş. Then he graduated from İstanbul University, Faculty of
Literature, Department of Turkology. He served as a teacher of Turkish at Elbistan, Çayeli and
Adana High Schools for Boys. He continued to work as an assistant
director at the Gazi Institute of Education and then as a lecturer on Turkish
at Hacettepe University, Faculty of Education, Department of Science.
His
early poems were published in Öncüler review. Later they
were published in Divan* (member of the editorial board), Doğuş, Kanat Edebiyat, Töre, Erguvan, Türk
Edebiyatı, Dolunay reviews. His poetry book Kuş Sofrası (Bird Table)
won the Children’s Literature Award in 1991 given by the Writers Union of
Turkey.
WORKS:
Masal Çağı (Age of the Fairytale, 1983), Kuş Sofrası (Bird Table,
1991), Gökte Ay Portakaldır (The
Moon is an Orange in the Sky).