Semra İplikçi – poet, writer, lyricist, educator, and presenter – who is from Malatya, lived in several different cities of Turkey due to his father’s job as a police officer throughout her life.
Her interest in literature emerged in her middle school years. Her poems and writings were published in Sesimiz (Our Voice) - a school journal prepared by the Culture and Literature Group of Ankara Etlik Middle School. She graduated from the Science Department of Etlik High School. She couldn’t continue her education at Science Faculty of Gazi University due to anarchy reasons prevalent in Turkey in those years. In the meantime, she graduated from two-year art school. She became successful in the tailoring and dressing exams held at the Directorate of Public Education Center under the Ministry of National Education and had the certificate of competency to become a teacher. She worked as a sewing teacher in Lâdik, Samsun between the years 1990 and 2000.
In 1995, she also graduated from Amasya Vocational High School by becoming successful in all the courses of the first, second and third years of the high school. She then studied at the Department of Administration and Organization, Faculty of Management, Eskişehir Anadolu University. She got certificates of diction and computer as well. In addition, she worked as a public affairs manager at several institutions.
In 2002, she worked as a presenter at Başkent TV and also played several roles at some episodes of the television series Bizim Evin Halleri at TRT. While taking part at a number of activities of TRT, she was invited to Karınca Kararınca, a TV show broadcasted at TRT, and some other TV shows of TRT Türk, Channel B, Dost TV and several other television channels as a poet and writer.
İplikçi gave some speeches at various schools, talked at conferences upon the subject of smoking and also participated in the programs of poetry recitations. By participating at festivals and poetry feasts organized at several different cities of Turkey, she got certificates of participation. Semra İplikçi, who got proposals from universities for being studied as a poet as a dissertation subject and also for giving speeches on her life and career, states that she takes life as a school. In order to reach people who can read or don’t have the opportunity to read her works, she voiced her poems in a record album released by Emek Music Production Company in 2003 under the name of Yıldızlara Doğru (Towards the Stars).
Her book Yıldızları Arıyorum (In Search of Stars) was published in May 2002 by Ocak Publishing House. Ten children’s classical stories which were redacted by İplikçi (Pollyanna, Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver’s Travels, Peter Pan, Tom Sawyer, the Kip Brothers, World Tour by Car, Whale Hunters, Don Quixote, School Holiday for Two Years) were published in 2003. Her book entitled Polyanna’ya İnat Semranna (Semranna Against Pollyanna) was published in October 2004 by Akasya Publishing and then it was translated to English. Her poems were published in several poetry anthologies some of which can be listed as Türk Edebiyatında Günümüz Kadın Şairleri (Modern-day Women Poets of Turkish Literature) prepared by Hüseyin Yurdabak in 2006, Atatürk Şiirleri Antolojisi (Anthology of Atatürk Poems), Dünden Bugüne Malatyalı Şairler (Poets of Malatya from Yesterday to Present) and Samsun Şiir Seçkisi (Samsun Anthology of Poetry). Furthermore, her poems were published in the anthologies Canım Annem (My Dear Mother) prepared by Nezihe Tuna and published in İstanbul in 2006, and in an anthology book published in Baku. Her works were also published in an encyclopaedia prepared by İLESAM and in the fifth volume of a ten-volume encyclopaedia prepared by the estimable man of letters and writer İhsan IŞIK under the name of Türk Edebiyatçıları ve Kültür Adamları (Turkish Man of Letters and Culture). In addition, news about İplikçi’s works were published in several newspapers and education, culture and art journals of several educational institutions.
With her words “I love living and sharing. I think of continuing to write for the rest of my life. I continue to produce my works as an active member of İLESAM (Turkish Professional Association of Literary Work Owners). My aim is not to be famous but to be important, to be remembered through my works. My philosophy for life is ‘DO NOT BE LAZY! DO NOT DELAY! DO NOT GIVE UP!”. I’ll continue to regard myself, to the end of my life, as always a student who is studying for university.”, she also reflected her attitude to life and still lives with the consciousness that life is a school and things that are to be learned are endless.
She also has lyrics that she wrote and that were composed by TRT composers and virtuoses Naim İlgün Soysev and Suat Yıldırım, and also Tuncay Yalın, masters of classical Turkish music.
Semra İPLİKÇİ presently continues to work on her poetry book, children’s books, her novel and her lyric writing as well as record albums of her composed lyrics.
WORKS:
ESSAY-NARRATIVE
-Polyanna'ya İnat Semranna (Semranna Against Pollyanna)
-Polyanna' dan Semranna'ya (Semranna Mutluluk Yolunda)
From Pollyanna to Semranna (Semranna on the Path of Happiness)
POETRY BOOKS
-Yıldızları Arıyorum (In Search of Stars)
-Ürperiş (The Shivers)
-Ürperti (The Shudder)
-Sİ (SI)
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
-Merak Ediyorum Serisi (Series of I Wonder)
-Deniz Kızı ve Siyah İnci (12 hikaye – Azeri diline çevrilmiştir)
The Mermaid and the Black Pearl (12 stories – translated to Azerbaijani language)
-Besmele Teyze (Aunt Basmala)
-Ahiret Ağacı ile Dünya Ağacı (The Afterlife Tree and the Earth Tree)
-Küçük Çoban Büyük Yürek (The Little Shepherd a Big Heart)
-Küçük Müfettiş (The Little Inspector)
REFERENCE: Yıldızları Arıyorum (Ekspres gazetesi (Eylül 2002), Polyanna’ya İnat Semranna (Zaman, 30.11.2004), Ali Gündüz / Polyanna’ya İnat Semranna (Ana Yurt, 9.5.2006), İhsan Işık / - Resimli ve Metin Örnekli Türkiye Edebiyatçılar ve Kültür Adamları Ansiklopedisi (2006, gen. 2. bas. 2007), Semra İplikçi (02.03.2022).
Semra İplikçi – poet, writer, lyricist, educator, and presenter – who is from Malatya, lived in several different cities of Turkey due to his father’s job as a police officer throughout her life.
Her interest in literature emerged in her middle school years. Her poems and writings were published in Sesimiz (Our Voice) - a school journal prepared by the Culture and Literature Group of Ankara Etlik Middle School. She graduated from the Science Department of Etlik High School. She couldn’t continue her education at Science Faculty of Gazi University due to anarchy reasons prevalent in Turkey in those years. In the meantime, she graduated from two-year art school. She became successful in the tailoring and dressing exams held at the Directorate of Public Education Center under the Ministry of National Education and had the certificate of competency to become a teacher. She worked as a sewing teacher in Lâdik, Samsun between the years 1990 and 2000.
In 1995, she also graduated from Amasya Vocational High School by becoming successful in all the courses of the first, second and third years of the high school. She then studied at the Department of Administration and Organization, Faculty of Management, Eskişehir Anadolu University. She got certificates of diction and computer as well. In addition, she worked as a public affairs manager at several institutions.
In 2002, she worked as a presenter at Başkent TV and also played several roles at some episodes of the television series Bizim Evin Halleri at TRT. While taking part at a number of activities of TRT, she was invited to Karınca Kararınca, a TV show broadcasted at TRT, and some other TV shows of TRT Türk, Channel B, Dost TV and several other television channels as a poet and writer.
İplikçi gave some speeches at various schools, talked at conferences upon the subject of smoking and also participated in the programs of poetry recitations. By participating at festivals and poetry feasts organized at several different cities of Turkey, she got certificates of participation. Semra İplikçi, who got proposals from universities for being studied as a poet as a dissertation subject and also for giving speeches on her life and career, states that she takes life as a school. In order to reach people who can read or don’t have the opportunity to read her works, she voiced her poems in a record album released by Emek Music Production Company in 2003 under the name of Yıldızlara Doğru (Towards the Stars).
Her book Yıldızları Arıyorum (In Search of Stars) was published in May 2002 by Ocak Publishing House. Ten children’s classical stories which were redacted by İplikçi (Pollyanna, Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver’s Travels, Peter Pan, Tom Sawyer, the Kip Brothers, World Tour by Car, Whale Hunters, Don Quixote, School Holiday for Two Years) were published in 2003. Her book entitled Polyanna’ya İnat Semranna (Semranna Against Pollyanna) was published in October 2004 by Akasya Publishing and then it was translated to English. Her poems were published in several poetry anthologies some of which can be listed as Türk Edebiyatında Günümüz Kadın Şairleri (Modern-day Women Poets of Turkish Literature) prepared by Hüseyin Yurdabak in 2006, Atatürk Şiirleri Antolojisi (Anthology of Atatürk Poems), Dünden Bugüne Malatyalı Şairler (Poets of Malatya from Yesterday to Present) and Samsun Şiir Seçkisi (Samsun Anthology of Poetry). Furthermore, her poems were published in the anthologies Canım Annem (My Dear Mother) prepared by Nezihe Tuna and published in İstanbul in 2006, and in an anthology book published in Baku. Her works were also published in an encyclopaedia prepared by İLESAM and in the fifth volume of a ten-volume encyclopaedia prepared by the estimable man of letters and writer İhsan IŞIK under the name of Türk Edebiyatçıları ve Kültür Adamları (Turkish Man of Letters and Culture). In addition, news about İplikçi’s works were published in several newspapers and education, culture and art journals of several educational institutions.
With her words “I love living and sharing. I think of continuing to write for the rest of my life. I continue to produce my works as an active member of İLESAM (Turkish Professional Association of Literary Work Owners). My aim is not to be famous but to be important, to be remembered through my works. My philosophy for life is ‘DO NOT BE LAZY! DO NOT DELAY! DO NOT GIVE UP!”. I’ll continue to regard myself, to the end of my life, as always a student who is studying for university.”, she also reflected her attitude to life and still lives with the consciousness that life is a school and things that are to be learned are endless.
She also has lyrics that she wrote and that were composed by TRT composers and virtuoses Naim İlgün Soysev and Suat Yıldırım, and also Tuncay Yalın, masters of classical Turkish music.
Semra İPLİKÇİ presently continues to work on her poetry book, children’s books, her novel and her lyric writing as well as record albums of her composed lyrics.
WORKS:
ESSAY-NARRATIVE
-Polyanna'ya İnat Semranna (Semranna Against Pollyanna)
-Polyanna' dan Semranna'ya (Semranna Mutluluk Yolunda)
From Pollyanna to Semranna (Semranna on the Path of Happiness)
POETRY BOOKS
-Yıldızları Arıyorum (In Search of Stars)
-Ürperiş (The Shivers)
-Ürperti (The Shudder)
-Sİ (SI)
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
-Merak Ediyorum Serisi (Series of I Wonder)
-Deniz Kızı ve Siyah İnci (12 hikaye – Azeri diline çevrilmiştir)
The Mermaid and the Black Pearl (12 stories – translated to Azerbaijani language)
-Besmele Teyze (Aunt Basmala)
-Ahiret Ağacı ile Dünya Ağacı (The Afterlife Tree and the Earth Tree)
-Küçük Çoban Büyük Yürek (The Little Shepherd a Big Heart)
-Küçük Müfettiş (The Little Inspector)
REFERENCE: Yıldızları Arıyorum (Ekspres gazetesi (Eylül 2002), Polyanna’ya İnat Semranna (Zaman, 30.11.2004), Ali Gündüz / Polyanna’ya İnat Semranna (Ana Yurt, 9.5.2006), İhsan Işık / - Resimli ve Metin Örnekli Türkiye Edebiyatçılar ve Kültür Adamları Ansiklopedisi (2006, gen. 2. bas. 2007), Semra İplikçi (02.03.2022).
