Adnan Benk

Journalist-writer, critic (B. 1922, Paris- D. January 19, 1998, İstanbul). He was graduated from Istanbul Saint Joseph High School (1941), İstanbul University Faculty of Literature Department of French Language and Literature (1946). He began to work in the same faculty as an assistant and became associate professor (1954). In 1982, he got retired with his own request.

He managed Meydan Larousse (1969), Türkiye Ansiklopedisi, Büyük Larousse (1986) encyclopedias and Çağdaş Eleştiri Journal (1984-85). He produced documentaries, made translations from Western literature. His dissertations and critics written in Dünya newspaper (1953-60) and Istanbul (1943), Küçük Dergi (1952), Yeditepe journals were published as books after his death.

WORKS:

POETRY: Sükûtun Hataları (1944).

ESSAY-CRITIC: Eleştiri Yazıları I (2000), Eleştiri Yazıları II (2000), Eleştiri Yazıları III- Çağdaş Eleştiri-Söyleşiler Yazılar (2001), Eleştiri Yazıları IV- Okuyorum Öyleyse Varım (prepared by Mehmet Rifat, 2002).

TRANSLATION: Mahvolan Şaheser (from Balzac, 1944), Katır İnadı (from G. Guareschi, 1957), Gönülçelen (from J.D. Salinger, 1967), Bir Kış Günü Öğleden Sonra (from M. Duras, 1989).

REFERENCE: Behçet Necatigil / Edebiyatımızda İsimler Sözlüğü (ed. 18,  1999), Şükran Kurdakul / Şairler ve Yazarlar Sözlüğü (exp. ed.6,  1999), TBE Ansiklopedisi (vol.1, 2001), İhsan Işık (TEKAA, 2009).