28 Temmuz 2015

Turkish Poetic - Şerif Erginbay

Serif Erginbay


CURRICULUM VITAE
ŞERİF ERGİNBAY
He was born in a mountain village in Antalya in 1957.  He comleted primary school in the village where he was born, secondary school in Karaman as a boarding student and high school in Manavgat.
Between 1980-83 he continued his studies at the department of Turkish Language and Literature at Samsun 19 Mayıs University, but he couldn’t graduate because of the 12th. September  military coup, he was sent to prison. In 1987 he discovered a historical water mill in Ahmetler Canyon, which is up away from of Karpuzçay. Upon setting he lived there for 13  years with  his friends, wife and his two children. Dar Köprü (Narrow Bridge) consisits of  the poems of that period.
Since 1988 he has published his poems that he carried on struggling along “Son Yeni Biçem,Kıyı,Yaşasın Edebiyat, Bahçe, İnsan Şiir Defteri, Morca, S’imge” magazines for a long time. His first poem book  Dar Köprü was published in 2000 by Hera Poem Library.
He has been living in Antalya since 2000 and he has been studying as a text writer, on literature magazines, graphing concepts and desktop puplishing.
His poem book file called “Geniş Zamanlar, which is ready to be published, can also be reade as an expression of concern and worry og hectic city life, and as a struggle to keep up with the main time of love, hope and existence.

Translation from Turkish: Pembenur Güvenç

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