Yahya Saim Ozanoğlu

Poet and writer (b. 1898, İstanbul – d. 3 June 1962, İstanbul). He was the son of Yusuf Ziya Bey, the parliamentary deputy from Erzurum in the last Ottoman Parliament. He graduated from Galatasaray Secondary School and Istanbul University, Faculty of Literature. He participated in World War I, and after the war he worked as a teacher of Turkish, literature and French in Konya, Kayseri, Trabzon and Ankara for ten years and then returned to İstanbul. He retired in 1953 when he was teaching at Haydarpaşa High School. His poems and articles were published in the reviews Servet-i Fünûn, Fağfur, Millî Mecmua, Gündüz, İçtihat, Yeni Adam, Türk Yurdu, etc. He used metrics and syllabic meters in his poems.

WORKS (Poetry):

Hilalin Gölgesinde: Çanakkale-Kutü'l amare Zafer Destanı (In the Shadow of the Crescent: Epic of the Victory in Dardanelles, 1916), Memleket İlhamları (Inspirations of the Country, 1919), Leyla'nın Ölümü (Leyla’s Death, 1922), Mayıs Gecesi (A Night in May, 1923), Kral Edib (King Edib, 1924), Çin Masalı (Chinese Fairytale, 1927), Mahşerde Sabah (Morning in Armageddon, 1925), Çoban Ateşi (Shepherd’s Fire, 1928), Çoban Ateşi II (Shepherd’s Fire II, 1928), Gül ve Lale Bahçelerinde (In the Gardens of Rose and Tulip, 1931), Çoban Ateşi III: Süngülerin Gölgesinde (Shepherd’s Fire III: In the Shadow of Bayonets, 1933), Bugünün Destanı (The Epic of Today, 1939), Bezm-i Rindan (Jolly Banquet, 1962).