Urkiye Mine Balman
Urkiye Mine Balman (born 1927) in Lefke is an author and poet who graduated from the Cyprus Turkish Teachers' Training College in 1946 and worked as a teacher in Cyprus.[1]
Balman has written on a wide variety genres, but her works are mostly romantic poems describing sometimes a lonesome village girl or country life and long-distance romances. Balman has published her works in Yesilada, Türk Dili, and Türk'e Dogru literary magazines in Turkey.[2] Some of her poems have also been set to music by Turkish Cypriot musicians.
Works
- Yurduma Giden Yollar ("The Roads that Lead to My Home") 1952
- Kibris Turk Yazininin Ilk Kadin Sairlerinden URKIYE MINE BALMAN 2003
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