Cemal Süreya
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Cemâl Süreya (1931, Pülümür, Tunceli – 1990, Istanbul) was a Kurdish-Turkish poet and writer.
Biography
After the 1938 Dersim Rebellion, Süreya and his family were forcefully deported to Bilecik, a Turkish city in western Anatolia. This had a significant effect on his poems.
He graduated from the Political Sciences Faculty of Ankara University. He was the editor-in-chief of the Papirus 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.[citation needed] He lost a letter "y" from his surname – originally Süreyya – because of a lost bet with Turkish poet Sezai Karakoç.[1]
Bibliography
Poetry
- Üvercinka (1958)
- Göçebe (1965)
- Beni Öp Sonra Doğur Beni (1973)
- Sevda Sözleri (Collected Poems, 1984)
- Güz Bitiği (1988)
- Sıcak Nal (1988).
Articles
- Şapkam Dolu Çiçekle (1976)
- Günübirlik (1982)
- 99 yüz (1990)
- Folklor Şiire Düşman (1992)
- Uzat Saçlarını Frigya (1992)
- Aritmetik iyi Kuşlar Pekiyi (1993) -for children
See also
References
- ↑ "Ýnternetteki Gazeteniz - enCokOkunan - cemal sureya y harfini nasil kaybetti". Gastebursa.com. Retrieved 2012-10-16.
- Siirgen.org - Biography and bibliography of Cemal Süreya (Turkish)
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