Mehmet Cimi

Poet and writer. He was born in 1931 at Büyükoturak village / Banaz/ Uşak. He graduated from the Village Institute of Eskişehir Çifteler (1949). He worked as primary school between 1949 and 1979 in Uşak, Izmir and Istanbul, he was retired in 1979.

His first poem (Geçmişi Anış), was published at April 1949 issue of Edebiyat Dünyası journal. He has also published his articles and poems in the journals such as Edebiyat Dünyası (1949), Varlık (1950-51), Köy ve Eğitim (1955), Gayret (1955-57), Gerçekler Postası (1967), Abece (1987-95) and Kıyı (1991-). In 1988, he received Ferit Oğuz Bayır Thoughts and Arts Award with his book Tonguç Baba - Ülkeyi Kucaklayan Adam. He is the member of Language Association, Association of Men of Letters and Writers’ Traden Union of Turkey.

WORKS:

ANTHOLOGY: Sosyal Şiirler Antolojisi (1967).

BIOGRAPHY: Tonguç Baba - Ülkeyi Kucaklayan Adam (1990), O Yıllar Dile Gelse (1997; exp. new. ed., 1999).

CHILDREN’S NOVEL AND STORY: Abbas’ın İçindeki Kuş (1996), Yol Verin Değnekten Atıma (1996), Yazgısını Değiştiren Çocuk (2000).

REFERENCE: Vedat Günyol / 44 Yıllık Özlem Çağrısı (Milliyet Sanat, May 1988), Fakir Baykurt / Anadolu Ekini (June 1990), Nadir Gezer / Aydınlığa Yolculuk (Abece, April 1998), Hasan Akarsu / Aydınlanmanın Işıkları “O Yıllar Dile Gelse” (Öğretmen Dünyası, April 2000), TBE Ansiklopedisi (2001), İhsan Işık (TEKAA, 2009).