Storywriter
and novelist (b. 10 June 1940, Kılıçkaya / Yusufeli / Artvin). He attended Kars
Kâzım Karabekir Primary School (1955), İstanbul Teacher Training School (1958),
İstanbul Institute of Education, Department of Literature (1961) and graduated
from Ege University, School of Journalism and Public Relations (1974) and from
Ankara University, Faculty of Education, Department of Education in Fine Arts
(1977). He worked as teacher at teacher training schools and high schools in
Kars, Kütahya, İzmir and Ankara. After teaching at Buca School of Education, he
became a lecturer at Bilkent University, where he still gives lectures.
He worked in
bureaucratic positions for some time and was the General Director of Higher
Education Credit and Pensions Institution (1978-80), Assistant General
Secretary at the İzmir Metropolitan Municipality (1989-91) and as an advisor at
government ministries and at the office of the Prime Ministry. He traveled
across Italy, Northern Iraq and Georgia due to research.
His first
article was published in the review Eğitim
Hareketleri in 1959. His other articles appeared in the
reviews Varlık, Türk Dili, Demokrat
İzmir, Cumhuriyet, Yelken, Türk Folklor Araştırmaları, Kıyı and Arayış. He collected the Ministry of
National Education Eminent Achievement Award in 1964; the Antalya Art Festival
Short Story Award in 1975; certificates of acknowledgement from the General
Directorate of Physical Education in 1978 and Göteborg Municipality in Sweden
in 1989. He is member of the Turkish Authors Association and the Platform of
Science, Administration and Culture of the Republican People’s Party.
WORKS:
SHORT STORY:
Gitmek Üstüne (About Going Away,
1966).
NOVEL: Öfke Yutulmaz (Rage Cannot Be Swallowed,
1979), Güneş Susadı (The Sun is
Thirsty, 1990).
In addition,
he wrote various textbooks in collaboration and on his own.
