Poet and writer (b. 1953, Yukarıovalı (Vizara) village / Küçükdere /
Sürmene / Trabzon – d. 13 September 2010, İstanbul). His full name is Osman
Olcay Yazıcı. He attended Aşağıovalı Village High School and graduated from
Zonguldak Fener High School. He completed his graduate education in İstanbul.
He started to journalism in 1984 and worked as a series and interview writer
and columnist; art-culture pages editor, department editor, editor and redactor
in European prints (1984-1997). He was the editor (1983-84) of the review Türk Edebiyatı that was published by
Turkish Literature Foundation and the science and technology review İnsan ve Kainat, which was review of
İhlas Holding Company reviews group (1988-94). He undertook the job of editor
in chief of the review Kültür Dünyası
(1997-98, 16 issues). He edited the Art, Culture and Thought pages of the
newspaper Ayyıldız Gazetesi in
1999.He worked as the coordinator of and publication commission and periodicals
editor of Independent Industrialists and Businessmen’s Association (2000-2001).
He is still working as a general director of International Technological
Economic and Social Researches Foundation. He is a member of The Professional
Association of Scientific and Literary Work Owners of Turkey, Journalists
Association and Writers Union of Turkey.
He published his short stories, essays and thought articles in the
reviews such as Hisar, Töre, Türk
Edebiyatı, Boğaziçi, Pınar, Meşale, Dolunay, Ufuk Çizgisi, Millî Kültür, İnsan
ve Kâinat, Cemre, Güneysu, Çağrışım, Tepe Edebiyat, Kırağı, Kültür Dünyası,
Tarih ve Düşünce, İslâmî Edebiyat, Bizim Külliye, Çerçeve, Seyir, Öncüler,
Kubbealtı Akademi Mecmuası, Biyografi Analiz, Mor Taka, Yüzakı and Ufuk Ötesi and in the
newspapers Türkiye and Ayyıldız. Some of his poems were
composed by Arif Nazım and Mehmet Ylmaz. He came first at Turkish Literature
Foundation with his short story book Çocuklar
Vatanında Büyüsün (May Children Bring
Up in Their Countries) in 1982.
WORKS:
SHORT-STORY: Çocuklar Vata–nında Büyüsün (May
Children Bring Up in Their Countries,
1985), Papatyalar Üşümesin (May
Daisies Not Be Cold, 1990), Yaralı Küheylân (Wounded Horse, 2004).
POETRY: Erguvan Uğultusu (Hum of the Judas Tree,
1991), Eylül' ün Kırdığı Gül (The
Rose that September Hurt, 1994).
ESSAY: Tartışmayı Tartışmak (Arguing the
Argument, 1992), Hüzün Yazıları (Melancholy
Writings, 1993), Kitapsız Toplum (A
Society Without Books, 1994), Nemrut Ateşi (Nemrut Fire, 2004).
STUDY: Büyük Gün / Bir Kıyâmet Alâmeti Olarak
Hazreti İsâ'nın Dönüşü (The Great Day / The Return of Jesus as an Evidence
of Apocalypse, 2001), Eğitim ve Kültür
Trajedimiz /Kendimiz Olmaktan Nasıl Çıktık (Our Education and Culture
Tragedy / How Did We Differentiate From Ourself, 2001).
