Edip Ayel
Poet (B. August 23, 1894, Istanbul- D. January 17, 1957). He was graduated from Galatasaray High School and Paris Higher Agricultural School (1914). When he came back to Istanbul, he worked in various jobs, afterwards, he worked as a French teacher in various schools (1922-55). Ayel won the first prize in a poem contest in France in 1938, wrote Turkish and French poems.
He was considered as one of the pioneers of new-classicism in his era with his poems written in aruz prosody and also he took attention with his efforts about implementing Western verses in to Turkish poems. Ayel also has two poem books in which he collected his French poems.
WORKS (Poetry):
Mozayik (1944), Şehrayin (1953).
REFERENCE: Behçet Necatigil / Edebiyatımızda İsimler Sözlüğü (ed. 18, 1999), Şükran Kurdakul / Şairler ve Yazarlar Sözlüğü (exp. ed. 6, 1999), TBE Ansiklopedisi (2001), İhsan Işık (TEKAA, 2009).
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Poet (B. August 23, 1894, Istanbul- D. January 17, 1957). He was graduated from Galatasaray High School and Paris Higher Agricultural School (1914). When he came back to Istanbul, he worked in various jobs, afterwards, he worked as a French teacher in various schools (1922-55). Ayel won the first prize in a poem contest in France in 1938, wrote Turkish and French poems.
He was considered as one of the pioneers of new-classicism in his era with his poems written in aruz prosody and also he took attention with his efforts about implementing Western verses in to Turkish poems. Ayel also has two poem books in which he collected his French poems.
WORKS (Poetry):
Mozayik (1944), Şehrayin (1953).
REFERENCE: Behçet Necatigil / Edebiyatımızda İsimler Sözlüğü (ed. 18, 1999), Şükran Kurdakul / Şairler ve Yazarlar Sözlüğü (exp. ed. 6, 1999), TBE Ansiklopedisi (2001), İhsan Işık (TEKAA, 2009).
