Papirüs

	Papirüs ''Papirüs'' () was a literary magazine which was published in Istanbul between 1960 and 1981 with some interruptions. The magazine is known for its founder and editor Cemal Süreya who was a poet and its well-known contributors. History and profile ''Papirüs'' was established by Cemal Süreya, and its first issue appeared in August 1960. Immediately after its start the magazine temporarily closed down due to financial problems. It was restarted in 1961 and managed to publish only three issues in that year. The magazine was republished in June 1966 and came out monthly until June 1970. In this period Tomris Uyar and Ülkü Tamer along with Cemal Süreya were instrumental in the reestablishment of the magazine. ''Papirüs'' was restarted in 1980 as a triannual publication but permanently ceased publication in March 1981. The magazine produced a total of fifty-three issues during its run. ''Papirüs'' mostly featured poems, book and journal reviews and contained a section for b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Enis Batur Ahmet Enis Batur (born 28 June 1952, Eskişehir, Turkey) is a Turkish poet, essayist, novelist, and editor. Education Born in Eskişehir on 28 June 1952, Enis Batur studied at St. Joseph High School Istanbul, B.A. in sociology at the Middle East Technical University, and Sorbonne University. Career Enis Batur is one of the leading figures in contemporary Turkish literature with a large body of work, extending to over a hundred volumes. Some of his works have been translated into European languages including French, English and Italian. He was among the contributors of the literary magazine ''Papirüs'' which was edited by Cemal Süreya Cemâl Süreya (born Cemâlettin Seber; 1931 – 9 January 1990) was a Turkish poet and writer of Kurdish– Zaza descent. Biography Süreya and his family were deported to Bilecik, a city in the Marmara Region of Turkey after the Dersim R .... He was a chief-editor at the Yapı Kredi Yayınları since 2017. Bibliography * ''Eros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Cemal Süreya Cemâl Süreya (born Cemâlettin Seber; 1931 – 9 January 1990) was a Turkish poet and writer of Kurdish– Zaza descent. Biography Süreya and his family were deported to Bilecik, a city in the Marmara Region of Turkey after the Dersim Rebellion (Tunceli) in 1938. He graduated from the Political Sciences Faculty of Ankara University. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of the '' Papirüs'' literary magazine. Cemal Süreya is a notable member of the Second New Generation of Turkish poetry, an abstract and postmodern movement created as a backlash against the more popular-based Garip movement. Love, mainly through its erotic character, is a popular theme of Süreya's works. Süreya's poems and articles were published in magazines such as '' Yeditepe'', ''Yazko'', ''Pazar Postası'', ''Yeni Ulus'', ''Oluşum'', ''Türkiye Yazıları'', ''Politika'', ''Aydınlık'', and ''Somut''. He is known to have been a primary influence on the poetry of Sunay Akın Sunay Akın ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Haldun Taner Haldun Taner (16 March 1915 – 7 May 1986) was a well-known Turkish playwright and short story writer. Biography He was born on 16 March 1915 in Istanbul. After graduating from the Galatasaray High School in 1935, he studied politics and economy at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, until a serious health problem forced him to return to Turkey, where he graduated from the Faculty of German Literature and Linguistics in 1950. He also studied theatre and philosophy at the University of Vienna between 1955 and 1957 under the direction of Heinz Kindermann (1894–1985), an Austrian theater and literary scholar. As a well-disciplined writer accumulating a rich blend of culture, Taner wrote a great number of stories, generally humorous; essays, newspaper columns, travel writings and theatre plays, in particular, brought him several important awards including the ''New York Herald Tribune'' Story Contest First Prize (1954), the Sait Faik Story Award (1954), the International Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca (26 August 1914, Istanbul – 15 October 2008, Istanbul) was one of the most prolific Turkish poets of the Turkish Republic with more than 60 collections of his poems published as of 2007. He was a laureate of the Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath Award. Biography Dağlarca's purist use of the Turkish language brought a new dimension to contemporary Turkish literature. His poems treat themes such as the prehistory of mankind and the cosmos, but also antimilitarist themes and the Turkish War of Independence. A selection of his poems have been translated into English by Talat Sait Halman (''Selected Poems'', Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press The University of Pittsburgh Press is a scholarly publishing house and a major American university press, part of the University of Pittsburgh. The university and the press are located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The press ..., 1969). Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca died on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ece Ayhan Çağlar Ece Ayhan Çağlar (September 10, 1931 in Muğla – July 12, 2002 in İzmir) was a contemporary Turkish poet. He used the name ''Ece Ayhan'' in his poems. He is one of the prominent figures of the ''II. New Movement'', yet he preferred to refer to this movement as ''Civilian Poetry''. His book ''Blind Cat Black and Orthodoxies'' features examples of homoerotic poetry in Modern Turkish literature. Çağlar was among the contributors of the literary magazine ''Papirüs'' which was edited by Cemal Süreya. Selected works * ''Kınar Hanım'ın Denizleri'' (1959) (Seas of Kinar Hanim) * ''Bakışsız Bir Kedi Kara'' (1965) (A Blind Cat Black) * ''Ortodokslular'' (1968) (Orthodoxies) * ''Devlet ve Tabiat'' (1973)(Government and Nature) * ''Yort Savul'' (Collection of the above works, 1977) * ''Zambaklı Padişah'' (1981) (The Sultan's Lily) * ''Defterler'' (Diaries, 1981) (Notebooks) * ''Çok Eski Adıyladır'' (1982) (With Its Very Old Name) * ''Kolsuz bir Hattat (Prose, 1987) ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Leyla Erbil Leyla Erbil (12 January 1931 – 19 July 2013) was a Turkish writer. She was one of the leading female contemporary writers of Turkey, author of six novels, three collections of short stories and a book of essays. She was the first Turkish female writer to be nominated for a Nobel Prize in Literature by PEN International in 2002. Erbil was a co-founder of the Union of Turkish Artists and the Writers Syndicate of Turkey. Personal life A second child in a family with three children, Leylâ Erbil was born on 12 January 1931 in Istanbul, Turkey, to Emine Huriye Hanim and Hasan Tahsin. She studied at the Kadıköy Girls School and attended the Department of English Language and Literature of Istanbul University. She married her first husband, Aytek Şay, in 1951 after her first year of university. The marriage, which did not last long, caused Erbil to take a break from her education; she returned to university shortly after they divorced. She met her second husband, Mehmet Erbil, whil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ahmed Arif Ahmed Arif (21 April 1927 in Siverek – 2 June 1991 in Ankara) was a Turkish- Kurdish poet. His father, Arif Hikmet, is an ethnic Turkmen from Kirkuk, and his mother Sayre is Kurdish. Ahmed Arif studied philosophy at Ankara University. Arif was arrested on political grounds in 1950 and spent time in prison until 1952. Published in various literary journals, his poems were widely read due to their original lyricism and imagery influenced by Anatolian folk cultures. He published only one collection of poetry: Hasretinden Prangalar Eskittim (Fetters Worn Out by Longing/1968) – a volume that has gone through a record number of printings. He was among the contributors of the literary magazine '' Papirüs'' which was edited by Cemal Süreya Cemâl Süreya (born Cemâlettin Seber; 1931 – 9 January 1990) was a Turkish poet and writer of Kurdish– Zaza descent. Biography Süreya and his family were deported to Bilecik, a city in the Marmara Region of Turkey after the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Behçet Necatigil Behçet Necatigil (Mehmet Behçet Gönül) (16 April 1916, Istanbul - 13 December 1979, Istanbul), Turkish poet, teacher and translator who is often considered to be one of the most important poets of modern Turkish poetry. His paternal family originated from Kastamonu, a city in Turkey's Western Black Sea region.His father, Mehmet Necati Gönül, was from the Çörekçiler family of Kastamonu. The family moved to Kastamonu when Behçet was young, and he completed his primary education there. His interest in literature is noted to have begun during his middle school years in Kastamonu. He later returned to Istanbul to continue his education and career.Throughout his writing life he stood apart from all literary movements, and was known as an independent poet and intellectual. Besides poetry, he has produced works in many fields of literature, from theater to mythology, from lexicography to novel translations and radio plays. He contributed greatly to the adoption of radiophonic p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ataol Behramoğlu Ataol Behramoğlu (born April 13, 1942) is a prominent Turkish poet, author, and Russian-into-Turkish literary translator. Life Ataol Behramoğlu was born on April 13, 1942, in Istanbul. He wrote poems in honour of his father Hikmet Bahramoglu, originally from Azerbaijan, under the name "Bahramoglu". However, his first name was Ataol Gorus in honour of the Goris region where his father grew up. Ataol Behramoğlu graduated from the Department of Russian Language and Literature at the University of Ankara in 1966. In 1970, he published his second book of verse, "''One Day Definitely''". Reprinted many times, this collection of poems was well received as a synthesis of the poetic tradition of Nazim Hikmet (1902-1963) with elements of symbolism and surrealism thrown in. Behramoğlu was among the contributors of the literary magazine '' Papirüs'' which was edited by Cemal Süreya. He was asked to read his poems before packed audiences of students. In the autumn of 1970, he left ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	İsmet Özel İsmet Özel (born 19 September 1944, in Kayseri, Turkey) is a Turkish poet and writer. Biography Özel was born in Kayseri in September 1944. His parents were Ahmet and Sıdıka Özel, and his father was a police officer from Söke. He attended primary and secondary school in Kastamonu, Çankırı and Ankara. In 1963, he attended classes at Faculty of Political Science, Ankara University, and graduated from the French Language department of Hacettepe University in 1976. Özel was among the contributors of the literary magazine '' Papirüs'' which was edited by Cemal Süreya Cemâl Süreya (born Cemâlettin Seber; 1931 – 9 January 1990) was a Turkish poet and writer of Kurdish– Zaza descent. Biography Süreya and his family were deported to Bilecik, a city in the Marmara Region of Turkey after the Dersim R .... Bibliography Poetry #Geceleyin Bir Koşu (A Run in the Night) #Evet, İsyan (Yes, Rebellion) #Cinayetler Kitabı (The Book of Murders) #Celladıma Gül� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sezai Karakoç Ahmet Sezai Karakoç (22 January 1933 – 16 November 2021) was a Turkish writer, thinker, community leader, and poet. Biography Karakoç graduated from the Faculty of Political Science at Ankara University and worked in the finance sector for many years. He was one of the pioneers of Turkish literature who aimed at bridging traditional Islamic beliefs and modern poetic techniques. He sees three essential elements for a poet. These three elements he calls Peer Gynt’s triangle, according to Karakoç, exists in Henrik Ibsen’s play, Peer Gynt. These three elements are: Poet must be himself. To be himself a poet must transform. Second element: a poet must be self content. Poet must love his art while being transformed by it. Thirdly, to be self-content, one must feel joy. This joy comes not from living but from letting live. Karakoç was among the contributors of the literary magazine ''Papirüs'' which was edited by Cemal Süreya. Bibliography * "''Körfez''" (Gulf, 1959) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Tomris Uyar Tomris Uyar (15 March 1941 – 4 July 2003) was a Turkish writer and translator. She was born in Istanbul, the daughter of two lawyers and granddaughter of Republican People's Party politician Süleyman Sırrı Gedik. She was educated at the British Girls' Secondary School and at Arnavutköy American Girls' College, now called Robert College (1961). She graduated from the Journalism Institute affiliated to the Faculty of Economics of Istanbul University (1963). The grave of the author, who died in 2003 due to esophageal cancer, is in Zincirlikuyu Mezarlığı. Life and career Uyar, who is one of the founders of ''Papirüs'' magazine together with Cemal Süreya and Ülkü Tamer, has published her essays, criticisms and book introductions in magazines such as '' Yeni Dergi'', and '' Varlık''. She won the Sait Faik Story Award in 1979 with Yürekte Bukağı and in 1986 with Journey to Summer from her ten short story collections. Uyar's diaries, of which more than 60 translat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]