Poet and writer
(b. 15 May 1934,
Known as the
“Tulip Poet" in the artistic media, Abdullah Satoğlu's first poem Erciyes'e (To Erciyes), was published in
Kayseri Halkevi Dergisi in 1949. His later poems and articles were published in the
reviews Orkun, Türk Sanatı, Erciyes,
Filiz, Boğaziçi, Çağrı, Gülpınar, Bahçe, Türk Edebiyatı, Millî Kültür and Türk Dili. He received the Kayseri Artists Association Folklore Award in 1982 and the
Service to Turkish Culture Award of the Folklore Association in 1996. Bearer of
a permanent press card, Abdullah Satoğlu has participated in several national
and international meetings and presented communiqués. His book Bir Demet Lale (A Bunch of Tulips) was
translated into Arabic (1996). Some of his poems have been set to music in
Turkish classical music compositions. He participated in the international
meeting “The Merbid Poetry Evenings” in
WORKS:
POETRY: Bir Demet Lâle (A Bunch of Tulips, 1956), Lâle Üstüne (About Tulips, 1971), Lâle Bahçelerinde (In the Gardens of
Tulips, 1992), Gönlümde Açan Lâleler (Tulips
that Blossom in my Heart, 1999).
COLLECTION - ANTHOLOGY: Kayseri
Erciyes ve Çevresi (Kayseri, Erciyes and Surroundings, collaborative work,
1958), Âşık Hasan (Poet Hasan, 1958), Bahçe Şairleri Antolojisi (Anthology
of Poems on Gardens, in collaboration with Erdoğan Ünver and Hüseyin Yurdabak,
?), Derdim Derdim Anadolu (I Gathered
Anatolia, 1985), Mimar Sinan Şiirleri (Poems
on Mimar Sinan, 1988), Kayseri
Ansiklopedisi (Encyclopedia of Kayseri, 2002), Edebiyat Dünyamızdan Hoş Sedalar (Lovely Voices from our Literary
World, 2004).
STUDY-RESEARCH: Kayseri-Erciyes ve Çevresi (Kayseri, Erciyes and their
Surroundings, in collaboration with Asım Yahyaoğlu), Kayseri Pastırmacılığı (Dried Meat Production in Kayseri, 1960), Başlangıçtan Bugüne Kadar - Kayseri
Şairleri (Poets of Kayseri-From Past to Present, 1962), Aşık Sefil Selimî’nin İlk Şiirleri (The First Poems of Aşık Sefil
Selimi, 1963), Mevlânâ'nın Hocası Seyyid
Burhaneddin (Seyyid Burhaneddin, the Teacher of Mevlana, 1968), Türk Şiirinde Lâle (Tulips in Turkish
Poetry, 1970), Satoğlu Mehmet Ali Hoca (Satoğlu
Mehmet Ali Hoca, 1972), Kayseri'nin
Efsane Adamı Osman Kavuncu (Osman Kavuncu, the Legendary Man of Kayseri,
1977), Halk Şairi Molulu Revâî (Molulu
Revai, the Folk Poet, 1980), Mimar Sinan
Şiirleri Antolojisi (An Anthology of Poems on Mimar Sinan), Kayserililerin Ticaretteki Başarı Sırları (Secrets
of the Kayseri’s Traders Success, 1995).