Poet (b.
1928, Hisarcık village / Yayladağ). He graduated from
Düziçi Village Institution (1951) and after a period of working as a primary
school teacher he graduated from the Ankara Gazi Institute of Education,
English Language Department. He worked as a teacher at
His poems have been published in reviews such as Yücel, Yeditepe and Türk Dili.
He won the 1980 Nevzat Üstün Poetry Award, the 1982 Yeditepe and the 1982 Turkish Language Association Poetry Award
with his book Halk Çağı (Age of People) and in 1984 the
Ömer Faruk Toprak Poetry Award with his book Şiir Sıcağı (The Heat of Poetry).
WORKS:
POETRY: Boyundan Utan Darağacı
(Shame on Your Neck, Man of the Gallows, 1976), Halk Çağı (Age of People,
1980), Ortadoğu Şiirleri (Middle
Eastern Poetry, 1983), Şiir Sıcağı (Heat of Poetry, 1984), Antakya Çarşıları (Antakya Bazaars,
1985), Taş Tanrılar (Gods of Stone,
1990), Asılacak Kitap (Book to be
Hung, 1991), Yunuslama (Speaking Like
Yunus, 1991), Havalı Meryem (Meryem
The Pompous, 1994), Aşktır En Yüce Makam
(Love is the Greatest Status, 1997), Voice Lock Puppet (2002), Atatürk Aydınlığı’nı Karanlıkçı Güçler
Kesemez (Dark Forces Can’t Block the Light of Atatürk, 2004).
NOVEL: Şeytanistan (Land of
the Devil, 1976), Siskent (Land of Fog,
1997).
ESSAY-RESEARCH: Şiirin Dili,
Yapısı, İşlevi (The Language, Structure and the Function of Poetry, 1975).
CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: Anamı
Arıyorum (I Seek My Mother, 1983), Çocuklar
İnsan Tomurcukları (Children, The
Buds of Mankind, 1991), Uzaya Giden
Uçurtma (The Kite That Goes to Space, 1994), Topun İçindeki Dev (The
Giant in the Ball, poetry, 2000).
