Efe Murad
| Efe Murad | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Efe Murat Balıkçıoğlu Istanbul, Turkey. |
| Nationality | Turkish |
Efe Murad is a Turkish poet, translator and historian.
Biography
Efe Murad studied philosophy at Princeton University and is working towards his PhD in Ottoman History and Arabic Philosophy at Harvard University.[1][2] Together with Cem Kurtuluş, he wrote the Matter-Poetry Manifesto in 2004. He has published five books of poetry and five books of translations from the Iranian poets Mahmoud Mosharraf Azad Tehrani and Fereydoon Moshiri and from the American poets C. K. Williams, Susan Howe, and Lyn Hejinian in Turkish. A recipient of "Meral Divitçi Prize for Turkish Poetry in Translation" together with Sidney Wade [3], he prepared a selection from the œuvre of Turkish poet Melih Cevdet Anday under the title "Silent Stones" (Talisman Press, 2017).[4] His poems, writings and translations in English have appeared in a wide range of journals including "The American Reader", "Five Points", "Denver Quarterly", "Guernica"[5], "Critical Flame"[6], "Turkish Poetry Today", "Poet Lore", "Asymptote",[7] "Jacket",[8][9] and "Two Lines", and exhibitions including the 13th Istanbul Biennial [10]. He is currently working on the complete Turkish translations of Ezra Pound’s "Cantos".
References
- ↑ https://jacket2.org/content/efe-murad
- ↑ https://scholar.harvard.edu/efemuratbalikcioglu/bio-research-1
- ↑ Nazım Hikmet Poetry Festival Meral Divitçi Prize,
- ↑ "Silent Stones: Selected Poems of Melih Cevdet Anday",
- ↑ "Voice" by Melih Cevdet Anday,
- ↑ "Garip": A Manifesto (1941), The Critical Flame
- ↑
- ↑ A Word's Autobiography on Seyhan Erözçelik in "Jacket",
- ↑ Poems in English at "Jacket"
- ↑ Shahzia Sikander, Du Yun and Efe Murad at the 13th Istanbul Biennial,
External links
- Poems in English in "Jacket",
- On "The Materialist Poem",
- "A poem in the manner of Karacaoglan", translations by Sidney Wade and Efe Murad in "Asymptote" sections 1 and 4; sections 6-8
- "Voice", a translation by Sidney Wade and Efe Murad in "Guernica"
- "Garip: A Turkish Poetry Manifesto", a translation by Sidney Wade and Efe Murad in "Critical Flame" The Critical Flame
- A Word's Autobiography on Seyhan Erözçelik in "Jacket",
- "Silent Stones: Selected Poems of Melih Cevdet Anday",