Bandırma
Bandırma ()Greek: Panormos(Πανορμος)is a municipality and district of Balıkesir Province, northwestern Turkey. Its area is 755 km2, and its population is 167,363 (2024). Bandırma is located in the south of the Marmara Sea, in the ...
,
Turkey
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) is a Turkish
poet
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and writer. She graduated from
Yıldız Technical University
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and
Istanbul University
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and graduated from Management faculty of İstanbul University in 1975. She retired from The Central Bank. She was politically active, in the Women rights Movement.
She has published poetry, prose, stories and criticism. She also translated, contemporary poets from English to Turkish that published many of them in periodicals. She translates women poets from Antiquity to now selections from the world over.
She is laureate of price Ibrahim Yildizoglu (1999), price of poem of the international Meeting of the poets of
Yalova
Yalova is a market-gardening town located in northwestern Turkey on the eastern coast of the Sea of Marmara. It is the seat of Yalova Province and Yalova District.Sunullah Arısoy (2005)
Master of condensed poem, of the image that illumines and quietly. Her poetry explodes with sound and meaning reflects a struggle within herself, as well as a view of the world in which all horror and beauty are seen at once and often intermingled.
Her opposition and political ideas are reflected in her poems but from a lyrical way.
Works
*Dayan Ey Sevdam (''Resist Oh My Love'', 1984),
*Vaktolur (''A Time Comes When…'', 1986),
*Seni Özledim (''I Missed You'', 1990),
*Kül İzi (''The Trace of Ash,'' 1993),
*Denize Doğru (''Towards the Sea'', 1996),
*Çocuk ve Akşam (''Child And Evening'', 1999),
*Taş Ayna (''Stone Mirror'', 2002).
*Yitik Anlam Peşinde (''In Search of Lost Meaning'', 2004),
*Ateşin Köklerinde (''In Roots Of Fire'' - Selected Poems, 2006)
*Les Yeux d'Istanbul (2014, Translated by Mustafa Balel, Ed. L'Harmattan, Paris)