Ä°lhan Berk

İlhan Berk ( born November 18, 1918 in Manisa, † 28 August, 2008 Bodrum) was a Turkish poet and essayist.

As one of the most famous representatives of the so-called Yeni İkinci in Turkish literature, he had great influence on him a circle of subsequent poets.

Berk, who was a teacher and translator in his main occupations, also created significant literary translations of foreign poetry into Turkish.

Life

İlhan Berk was born in 1918 in the western Anatolian provincial capital of Manisa. A first book of poems he wrote at an early age. After a short teacher training in Balıkesir in 1945, he studied pedagogy and French in Ankara. Until 1955 he worked as a teacher, after which he worked until 1969 as a translator for the largest universal bank in Turkey TC Ziraat Bankası. In addition, dedicated Berk literary work. His later years were spent the poet as a freelance writer in Bodrum, where he died in 2008.

Work

Berks first volume of poetry appeared Güneşi Yakanların selami 1935. Starting in the 1950s, then followed until the end of the 1990s many more. In his lyrical work, Berk, who is considered one of the most innovative poets of Turkey, as opposed to the socially critical poem and an advocate of an elitist understanding of seal ( artist for art's sake ) understand. For his internationally -received poems Berk also later awarded multiple literary awards, including the Prize of the Institute of the Turkish language (TDK ) 1979 and Behçet's Necatigil Poetry Prize the first year of his award in 1980.

Gero von Wilpert raises the lyrical work of the author 's " concrete verbalization of nature and of life with regard to modern trends such as concrete poetry " out. As being " important", according to the Encyclopedia of World Literature " his poetics Reflections" considered. As a literary translator Berk also took into foreign-language poetry into Turkish. As much applies here his development of poems of Arthur Rimbaud and Ezra Pound for the Turkish -speaking world.

Bibliography (selection)

Volumes of poetry

• Güneşi Yakanların selami (1935 )
• Istanbul ( 1947)
• Günaydın Yeryüzü (1952 )
• Türkiye Şarkısı (1953 )
• Köroğlu (1955 )
• Galile Denizi (1958 )
• Çivi Yazısı (1960 )
• Otağ (1961 )
• Mısırkalyoniğne (1962)
• Âşıkane (1968)
• Taşbaskısı (1975)
• Şenlikname (1976)
• Atlas (1976 )
• Kül (1978 )
• İstanbul Kitabi (1980 )
• Kitaplar Kitabi (1981 )
• Deniz Eskisi (1982 )
• Delta ve Çocuk (1984 )
• Galata (1985 )
• Güzel Irmak (1988 )
• Pera (1990 )
• Fertilizer Dağlarda Dolaştım Evde Yoktum (1993 )
• Avluya nozzles Gölge (1996 )
• Seyler Kitabi Ev (1997)
• Çok Yaşasın Sayılar (1999)

Translations

• Arthur Rimbaud: SECME Şiirler (1962 )
• Dunya Edebiyatında Aşk Şiirleri (1968 )
• Dunya Siiri (1969 )