Poet and writer (b. 16 March 1916, İstanbul - d. 6
January 1995, United Kingdom). He was the son of the distinguished professor,
Ebulûlâ Mardin. He attended Robert College (1936) and graduated from Istanbul
University, Faculty of Law (1940). He worked as a teacher, general secretary
and legal consultant at Robert College. In 1948, he was elected parliamentary
deputy for Mardin and served at the Turkish Grand National Assembly. Later on
he worked as the London Press Attaché, at the Ankara Province Tourism
Directorate, as a manager for the London Tourism and Introduction Bureau and at
the Washington Press Consultancy (1969). He retired while he was working at the
Bonn Press Consultancy (1975).
In
1935, he published the review Yücel
together with Muhtar Fehmi, in which he put his poems in prosodic meter into
print. Between 1936 and 1938, he published Boğaziçi,
which was a tourist magazine. His first poem was published in the review Mektep, when he was twelve years old,
and the others appeared in Yücel,
Boğaziçi, Çınar, Çınaraltı, Deniz, Gençlik, Yurd and in the reviews that he
published himself. Among his translations from English, it was especially that
of Romeo - Juliet from Shakespeare
that came to be the most popular.
WORKS:
POETRY:
Bir Ad Bulamadım (I Couldn’t Find A
Name, 1934), Mezar Taşları (Grave
Stones, 1947), İki Damla Yaş (Two
Tear Drops, 1947), Üç Yaprak (Three
Leaves, 1948), Bir Semtini Sevmek (To
Love A Town of Your Own, 1972), Sonelerle
Seneler (Years by Sonnets, 1981).
RESEARCH: Namık
Kemal'in Londra Yılları (Namık Kemal’s Years in London, 1976), Abdülhak
Hamid’in Londra'sı (The London of Abdülhak Hamid 1976), Abdulhak
Hamid'in Londra Yılları (Abdülhak Hamid’s Years in London, 1982).
OTHER WORKS: Colloquial
Turkish (1961), Turkish Phrase Book (1961), Romeo ve Jülyet (Romeo
and Juliet, translation, 1945).
