Poet
(b. 16 August 1931, Akdağmadeni / Yozgat - d. 13 February 2021, Kadıköy Istanbul)). He graduated from Ankara Commercial
High School (1952). He had various offices in the General Directorate of the
Turkish Cement Industry Company. He retired in 1980 as a marketing director. He
continued with his studies in İstanbul after retirement.
Beginning
in 1950, his poems and articles were published in the newspapers Kudret,
Tasvir, Son Havadis, Tercüman, Yeni Asır, Türkiye, Çankaya and reviews Mefkûre,
Oğuz, Aras, Çağrı, Töre, Hisar, Ocak, Toprak, Defne, Milî Kültür and
Türk Edebiyatı. He worked as a board member at the Turkish Cooperative
Association. At a contest held by the Turkish National Students’ Association on
“Conquering İstanbul” in 1953, he collected the top award with his poem of the
same name, and he collected first and third place prizes at poetry contests
held by the newspaper Tercüman and the 50th Anniversary of the Republic
respectively He was awarded with the Silver Liberty Medal by the Independent
Hungarian Authors Association (Munich) in 1970. He collected the first prize at
the Poems on the Republic and Atatürk Contest held by Ege University in 1973.
He represented Turkey at the Struga Poetry Evenings in 1991.
Some
of his poems have been translated into German, English, Arabic, Italian,
Hungarian, Macedonian and Serbian. More than 20 of his poems have been set to
music. İnal, who published approximately one thousand articles, attributed
Yunus Emre as the master influence in his poetry. The main theme of his poetry
is love, which he wrote both in free and syllabic verse.
WORKS:
POETRY: Gece Yarısı (Midnight, 1964), Yasak
Sevgi (Forbidden Love, 1970), Dostlarım - Manzum Portreler (My
Friends – Portraits in Verse, 1977), Çöl Türküsü-Libya ve Kaddafi Destanı
(Desert Song - The Legend of Libya and Gaddafi, 1979), İstanbul’a
Benziyorsun (You Look like İstanbul, 1985), Bir Yağmur Sonrası
(After a Rainfall, 1986), Ölümsüzlük Türküsü (Song of Immortality,
1987), Gönül Destanı (Legend of the Heart, 1992).
RESEARCH:
Halil Soyuer, Hayatı ve Şiirleri (Halil Soyuer, His Life and Poems,
1981).
COLLECTION: Destan Atatürk / Atatürk Şiirleri Antolojisi (Legendary Atatürk / Anthology of Poems on Atatürk, with İ. Nasrattinoğlu, 1981), Pera Palas ve Hasan Süzer (Pera Palace and Hasan Süzer, with F. Halıcı and İ. Parlatır, 1995).
