Zeki Ömer Defne

Poet

Death
02 December, 1992
Education
Istanbul University Faculty of Literature Department of Turkish Language and Literature
Other Names
Zekâi

      Poet (b. 1903, Çankırı – d. 2 December 1992, İstanbul). He also wrote under the pen name Asri Baba. After he completed his secondary education at Çankırı Ertuğrul School, he graduated from Ankara Teacher School and Istanbul University, Faculty of Literature, Department of Turkish Language and Literature (1939). He worked as a primary school teacher in Çankırı and as a teacher of literature at Kabataş High School for Boys (1935-50), Galatasaray High School (1950-69), the Private Şişli Terakki High School, the German High School and Yıldız Military School. He retired in 1969.

Starting in the newspaper Halk Yolu (Çankırı) in 1923, his poetry was published in the reviews Çınaraltı (1941), Ün (1943), Sanat ve Edebiyat Gazetesi (1947), Hareket (1948-49), Şadırvan (1949), Zeytin Dalı (1950), İstanbul (1953-56), Esi (1956), Çağrı (1959), Galatasaray (periodically), Varlık (1956-82) and Türk Edebiyatı (1983-89). He is known for his successful rhymed meter poems in the tradition of folk poetry.

WORKS:

POETRY: Denizden Çalınmış Ülke (The Country That Stole from the Sea, 1971), Sessiz Nehir (The Silent River, 1985), Kardelenler (Snowdrops, 1987).

RESEARCH: Dedekorkud Hikâyeleri (Dedekorkud Stories, 1989).

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