İlhan Geçer

Şair

Ölüm
20 Ocak, 2004
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Eğitim
Kabataş High School for Boys

Poet (b. 1917, Bakırköy / İstanbul - d. 20 January 2004). After he graduated from Erdek (Bandırma) High School (1928), he continued his education at Robert College 1929-32), Gaziantep, Yozgat (1937-38) and İstanbul Kabataş High School for Boys (1939). He dropped out of İstanbul University, Faculty of Economics and began to work as a tax assessor at the Galata Finance and Tax Office (1940). Between 1940 and 1945 he served as a soldier in Bursa. Later, he became clerk at Ankara Gazi High School (1945) and worked at the Ministry of Tourism and Ankara Radio (1945-50). He was a reporter, chief and assistant director at the General Directorate of Social Security Foundation, Department of Insurance of Senior Citizens (1950-73). After 1994, he was a member of the İstanbul Turkish Art Music Repertoire.

His first poem, “Gözlerin (Your Eyes) was published in the youth page of the newspaper Vakit. He was well known for his poems and articles published in the reviews and newspapers Dergâh and Yedigün (1938-50), Çınaraltı (1942-52), İstanbul (1942-44), Hisar (1950-81), Türk Dili (1950-69), Varlık (1952-75), Türk Edebiyatı (1972), Millî Kültür (1979), Vakit, Tercüman, Son Havadis, Millet and Türkiye. He won the first prize in the 1937 Yarım Ay Newspaper Poetry Competition, the third prize of the Ankara Community Center in 1946 with the poem, Özlediğim Şehir (The City that I Miss), the first prize of the newspaper Son Havadis in 1971 with Mavi İkindiler (Blue Afternoons), the fourth prize in the lyric contest of the newspaper Hürriyet in 1975 and the second prize of Eskişehir Association of Culture in 1986 with Yunus'a Selam (Salutations for Yunus). He traveled to Germany in 1955 and Macedonia (Struga) in 1984. He married Ruhan Yeşiltaş in 1987; they had no children. He was a member of the Professional Association of Scientific and Literary Work Owners of Turkey, the Turkish Literature Foundation, the Kadıköy Culture Association and the Turkish Authors Association.

WORKS:

POETRY: Büyüyen Eller (Growing Hands, 1954), Belki (Maybe, 1960), Bir Bulut Geçti (A Cloud Passed By, 1973), Yeşil Çağ (The Green Age, 1976), Hüzzam Beste (The Hüzzam Composition, 1986).

BIOGRAPHY: Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı (Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı, 1977), Ömer Bedrettin Uşaklı (Ömer Bedrettin Uşaklı, 1986).

ANTHOLOGY: Cumhuriyet Dönemi Türk Şiiri (Turkish Poetry in the Republican Era, 1987).

REFERENCE: İhsan Işık / Resimli ve Metin Örnekli Türkiye Edebiyatçılar ve Kültür Adamları Ansiklopedisi (2006, 2007).

 

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