- Ataol Behramoğlu
Ataol Behramoğlu [*
April 13 ,1942 Çatalca nearIstanbul ] .Is a prominent Turkishpoet ,translator andauthor .Life
Behramoğlu is graduated in Russian Language and Literature at
Ankara University . In 1970 he published Halkın Dostları review withIsmet Özel . Actually, during this period Ataol Behramoğlu purified his poetry by leaving out unsophisticated certainty and juveniledidacticism . He spent part of his life in exile inParis andMoscow . He was arrested and sentenced to hard labour as a member of the Turkish Peace Association in 1982, and subsequently went into exile in France where he studied, worked and lived until 1989, when he was acquitted in Turkey. In 1982, also, he won the International Prize of Lotus magazine. His later poems evidence a simpler, more direct style.His Epic of Moustapha Suphi (1987/88) was the first play in Turkish staged at the 1989 Avignon Theatre Festival. He was the president of the Turkish Writers Syndicate between 1995-1999, and has been the literary and political critic on staff of the Cumhuriyet daily since 1995. He is the Associate professor and Chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the
Istanbul University . In 2003 he was awarded The Great Prize of Poetry 2003 by Turkish InternationalP.E.N. Bibliography
* Bir Ermeni General (An Armenian General, 1965),
* Bir Gun Mutlaka (One Day for Sure, 1970),
* Yolculuk, Ozlem, Cesaret ve Kavga Siirleri (Poems of Travel, Longing, Courage and Strife,1974
* Ne Yağmur…Ne Şiirler (Neither Rain… Nor Poems, 1976),
* Kuşatmada (During the Siege, 1978),
* Mustafa Suphi Destan (Epic of Moustapha Suphi, 1979),
* Dörtlükler (Quatrains, 1980),
* Iyi Bir Yurttas Araniyor (Wanted: A Good Citizen,1983),
* Turkiye Uzgun Yurdum, Guzel Yurdum (Turkey, My Sad Homeland, My Beautiful Homeland, 1985),
* Kizima Mektuplar (Letters to My Daughter / 1986)
* Bebeklerin Ulusu Yok (Babies don’t have Nations, 1988),
* Sevgilimsi (You are my Beloved, 1993),
* Aşk İki Kişiktir (Love is two Person Thing, 1999),
* Yeni Aşka Gazel (Gazel to a new Love, 2002).
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