Poet and writer (b.
1922, Burdur – d. 27 July 1984, İzmir). He graduated from İstanbul
During his student years, he
participated in studies about the evaluation of folk poetry in Ahmet Kutsi Tecer’s Ülkü review.
He wrote poems full of local color on the topics of love and homeland. He won
second prize in the Peyami Safa Novel Competition in 1976 with his novel Akdeniz’in İnsan Çiçekleri (The Human Flowers of Mediterranean).
Beginning from 1941, his poems were published in the reviews Ülkü, Sanat ve Edebiyat, Millet, Fikirler, Şadırvan, Hisar,
Varlık. Besides his poetry, he wrote works on fairytales, research
and examination.
WORKS:
POETRY: Toprak İnsanları (People of Earth, 1945), Toprağın İçindeki Toprak (Earth within the Earth, 1946), Burdur'daki Mahallemiz (Our Neighborhood in Burdur, 1947), Keloğlan (Keloğlan, 1949), Basık Tavan (Low Ceiling, 1959), Bir
Köyden Bir İnsan (A Human from a
Village, 1951), Lefkoşe
(Nicosia, 1953), Minnacık Ada (The Very Little Island, 1954), Günaydın Yavru Kıbrıs (Good Morning Little Cyprus, 1959), Atatürk'üm (My Atatürk, 1959), Sev
Beni (Love Me, 1966), Açmıyor mu Kıbrıs'ımın Gülleri (Aren’t the Roses of My Cyprus Blooming,
1968), İzmir'in Mor Atları (The Purple Horses of İzmir, 1976).
ANTHOLOGY: Şiirimizde Öğretmen (The Teacher in our Poetry, 1965), Öğretmen Şairler Antolojisi (The Anthology of Teacher Poets,
1966), Atatürk Şiirleri Antolojisi (Anthology of Poems for Atatürk,
1967).
EPIC: Üç Destan (Three Epics: Köroğlu,
Karacaoğlan, Oghuz Epics, 1959).
CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: Nur Güzeli (The Beauty of the Divine Light, 1963), Dileği Gerçekleşmeyen Kız (The
Girl Who Couldn’t Get Her Wish, 1963), Güllü Padişah (Emperor
with Roses, 1963), Mavi Pullu Balık
(Blue Scaled Fish, 1964), Üç Yumak (Three Balls, 1964), Ömürsün
Nasreddin Hoca (You Are an
Excellent Person, Nasreddin Hoca, 1965), Pamuk Bacı (Cotton Sister,
1965), Köroğlu Destanı (The Epic of Köroğlu, 1965), Günaydın Anneciğim (Good Morning Mother, 1968), Keloğlan Masalları (Fairy Tales of Keloğlan, 1966), Ülkemin Efsaneleri (The Legends of My Country, 1966), Kendi Bir Karış Sakalı Üç Karış (He is One Span Long, His Beard is Three
Spans Long, 1972).
STUDY: Romanlarıyla
Reşat Nuri Güntekin İncelemesi (A Study on Reşat Nuri Güntekin and His Novels, 1971), Dilbilgisi Açısından
Yapıtlarımız (Our Works from the Angle of Grammar, 1974).
NOVEL: Memiş
Can (Memiş Can, 1978).
SHORT STORY: Anılardan Öyküler (Stories form Memories, 1979).
