Özdemir Asaf (11 June 1923,
Ankara
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- 28 January 1981,
Istanbul
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) was one of the prominent Turkish poets during the early Republican period.
Biography
Life
He was born on 11 June 1923 in Ankara. His real name is Halit Özdemir Arun. His father, Mehmet Asaf, is one of the founders of the
Council of State
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.
In 1930, the year his father died, he entered the first part of
Galatasaray High School
Galatasaray High School ( tr, Galatasaray Lisesi, french: Lycée de Galatasaray), established in what was then Constantinople and is now Istanbul, in 1481, is the oldest high school in Turkey. It is also the second-oldest Turkish educational in ...
. In 1941, in the 11th grade, he went to
Kabataş High School for Boys with an additional exam and graduated in 1942. He attended the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Economics (until the 3rd grade), and the Faculty of Journalism for one year. Meanwhile, he worked for Tanin and
Zaman newspapers and made translations.
Career
His first article published in
Servet-i Fünun
''Servet-i Fünun'' ("''Wealth of Knowledge''", french: Servetifunoun) was an avant-garde journal published in the Ottoman Empire and later in Turkey. Halit Ziya (Uşaklıgil) and the other writers of the "New Literature" ( ota, Edebiyat-ı Cedi ...
(Uyanış) magazine. He is founder of ''Sanat Basımevi'' (1951) and published his books under the name of Yuvarlak Masa Yayınları. He became one of the founders of the ''Temel Hakları Yaşatma Derneği'' (Fundamental Rights Survival Association), which was founded in 1962 under the leadership of Mehmet Ali Aybar.
Together with Attila İlhan, he was the most loved poet of the literary matinees, which was the favorite activity of the 1950s.
Özdemir Asaf, who visited the coastal cities of the Atlantic and the east of America in 1954, traveled almost all of Europe, starting from
Lapland in 1959. In 1966, at the invitation of the Macedonian Writer's Union, he went to
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...
and participated in the poetry congress.
Bibliography
Poems
* Dünya Kaçtı Gözüme - 1955
* Sen Sen Sen - 1956
* Bir Kapı Önünde - 1957
* Yumuşaklıklar Değil - 1962
* Nasılsın - 1970
* Çiçekleri Yemeyin - 1975
* Ben Değildim - 1978
* Bugün ve Bugün (Yayımlanmamış şiirler) - 1984
* Benden Sonra Mutluluk (Yayımlanmamış şiirler)
* Çiçek Senfonisi (Toplu şiirler) - 2008
* Sen Bana Bakma, Ben Senin Baktığın Yönde Olurum - 2012
* Yalnızlığa Övgü (Yalnızlık Paylaşılmaz)
* Lavinia
Ethica
*
Yuvarlağın Köşeleri - 1961
* Yuvarlağın Köşeleri-2 - 1988
Story
*
Dün Yağmur Yağacak - 1987
Essay
*
Özdemir Asaf'ça - 1988
Translations
*
Reading Zindanı Baladı (
Oscar Wilde) - 1968
*Seçme Şiirler
A poem of Özdemir Asaf - Lavinia (1957)
References
1923 births
1981 deaths
Writers from Istanbul
Burials at Aşiyan Asri Cemetery
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