Seyhmus Dagtekin

Seyhmus Dagtekin (born 1964 Harun village in Turkey) is a Kurdish poet and writer. He has lived in Paris since 1987. He writes in Turkish, in Kurdish or in French, and is the author of seven poetry books, and a novel À la source, la nuit. He is a leading role in renewing French poetry.

Awards

Seyhmus Dagtekin has already received several important prizes in France: The Mallarmé Poetry Prize 2007 and The Théophile Gautier Poetry Prize of The Académie française 2008 for his book Juste un pont sans feu, The Yvan Goll International Francophone Poetry Prize for Les chemins du nocturne and the special mention of The Five Continents of the Francophonie Prize in 2004 for his novel.

Works

• Ma maison de guerre, Le Castor astral (2011)
• Au fond de ma barque, L'Idée bleue (2008)
• Juste un pont sans feu, Le Castor astral (2007)
• La langue mordue, Le Castor astral - Écrits des Forges (2005)
• À la source, la nuit, Robert Laffont (2004)
• Couleurs démêlées du ciel, Le Castor Astral - Écrits des Forges (2003)
• Le verbe temps, Le Castor Astral - Écrits des Forges (2001)
• Les chemins du nocturne, Le Castor Astral (2000)
• Artères-solaires, L'Harmattan (1997)
• Aşkın Yalın Hali, Ünlem Yayınları, 1992

External links

• Seyhmus Dagtekin Website [1]
• On Nomadics [2]
• The Publisher Castor Astral Website [3]
• Printemps des Poètes Website [4]

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the French Wikipedia.