Üstün Akmen

Gezi Yazarı, Eleştirmen, Öykü Yazarı

Doğum
08 Temmuz, 1943
Eğitim
Istanbul University Faculty of Economics
Burç

Story and trip writer, critic. He was born on July 2, 1943 in Istanbul. He graduated from Şişli 19 Mayıs Primary School, Private Italian High School and Commercial School and Istanbul University Faculty of Economics. He worked as accounting and financial business manager at Koçtaş Trade and Ram Foreign Trade Inc., part of Koç Group companies between 1969 and 1984. He became the vice general manager in Tekfen Foreign Trade Inc in 1984. He became the stakeholder, executive board president and general director of Media Promotion Distribution Development Inc. within Cumhuriyet newspaper. He worked as the general director of Cumhuriyet newspaper, president of Cumhuriyet Book Club and the general editor of Cumhuriyet Books in 1997. He left Cumhuriyet newspaper in 2001; and worked as media and audience coordinator, general publications director at Istanbul City Theaters for more than a year. He worked as the general director of International PEN Clubs Federation Turkey branch and Turkey Critics Union; and also as the general director of Can Publications.

He began writing in 1963. His stories, essays, poems were published in journals such as Evrim, Dönem, Yeni Ufuklar, Yeni İnsan, Otağ, Yeni Dergi, Nokta, A. He adopted freedom, imagination and free style in form. He wrote about his trip observations since 1988 in the column of Cumhuriyet newspaper named “Pazar Yazıları”. He wrote articles on music in Andante journal and his theater critics in Tiyatro… Tiyatro journal and Evrensel newspaper.

WORKS:

TRAVEL LITTERATURE-ESSAY: Çarşafın Gizlediği Dişilik (1991), Bir Günlük Dost (1998), Yarim Nereyi Mesken Tuttun (2000).

STORY: Suçsuz Laleler (1996), Kör Bakkalın Gözleri (1999).

CRITIC: ...Vee Perdeee (2000), Üçüncü Zil (2001), Maskenin Öteki Yüzü (2002).

NOVEL: Provasız Yaşam (2005).

REFERENCE: Zülfü Livaneli / Kendi Medyasını Ören İpek Böceği (Çarşaf, 15.1.1991), Muzaffer Buyrukçu / Bir Günlük Dost (Cumhuriyet Kitap, 26.11.1998), Adnan Binyazar / Bir Günlük Dost (Cumhuriyet Kitap, 11.3.1999), Zeynep Aliye / Önem Bakılanda mı Bakışımızda mı? - Ayşe Bengi / Ne İçindesin Öykünün Ne de Büsbütün Dışında (Cumhuriyet Kitap, 10.2.2000), Muzaffer Buyrukçu / Senfonik Bir Öykü (Cumhuriyet Kitap, 4.5.2000), Hikmet Çetinkaya / Üstün Akmen ‘Perde’ Dedi (Cumhuriyet, 20.10.2000), Melisa Gürpınar / Yazarlar Biraz da Mekân Dışıdırlar (Cumhuriyet Kitap, 13.4.2000), Ulviye Alpay / Yarim Nereyi Mesken Tuttun (Cumhuriyet Kitap, 30.11.2000), Üçüncü Zil (Cumhuriyet Kitap, 27.12.2001), TBE Ansiklopedisi (2001), Ahmet Cemal / Üstün Akmen’in Üçüncü Zili (Cumhuriyet, 5.1.2002), Ahmet Cemal / Tiyatroya Saygı (Cumhuriyet, 15.01.2003), İhsan Işık (TEKAA, 2009). 

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