Ahmet Muhip Dıranas

Yazar, Şair

Ölüm
21 Haziran, 1980
Eğitim
Ankara High School for Boys
Diğer İsimler
Muhip Atalay, Dranas

Poet and writer (b. 1908, Sinop – d. 21 July 1980, Ankara). He completed his primary education in Sinop and his secondary education in Ankara High School for Boys (1930). As he was working in the newspaper Hakimiyet-i Milliye, he studied at Ankara University, Faculty of Law for two years. He left his education and became a librarian at İstanbul Academy of Fine Arts. He received education at the Faculty of Literature; however he returned to Ankara and began to work as the director of culture and arts at the People’s Houses at the Headquarters of Republican People’s Party (1938-42). After military service, he was appointed as the director of publications at the Children Protection Society (1946). He was nominated at the general elections from the Democrat Party, however he was not elected. Later on, he worked as a member of the literary board of the State Theaters (1951), as the chairman of Children Protection Society (1957), as a member of the executive board of the Anatolia Agency and finally as a member of the executives board of İş Bank.

His first poem titled Bir Kadına (To a Woman) was published in the review Millî Mecmua on 15 September 1926, with the pen name Muhip Atalay, as he was still a student at high school. Later, his poems were published in the reviews Servet-i Fünûn, Görüş, Ülkü, Sanat-Edebiyat and Varlık. He became one of the greatest poets of the Republican period with his poems, where he was influenced by the French symbolism and skillfully benefited from the Turkish tradition of poetry. His play titled Gölgeler (Shadows) received the award of second rank at a play competition organized by Republican People’s Party in 1947.  

WORKS:

PLAY: Gölgeler (Shadows, staged by the İstanbul Municipal Theater, 1946; published in 1947), O Böyle İstemezdi (He Would Not Want it to Be Like This, staged by the İstanbul Municipal Theater, 1949), Çıkmaz (The Impasse, staged in 1977).

POETRY: Şiirler (Poems, all poems, 1974), Kırık Saz (The Broken Bağlama*, poems of Tevfik Fikret in modern Turkish, 1975).

ESSAY: Yazılar (Articles, all articles, 242 essays published between 1937 and 1975, edited by Münire Dıranas, 1994; new edition, 2001).

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