Cemal Süreyya was a poet

Poet

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 and writer

Writer

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Biography

After the 1938 Dersim Rebellion

Dersim Rebellion

The Dersim rebellion was an uprising against the Turkish government in the Dersim region of eastern Turkey, which includes Tunceli Province, Elazığ Province, and Bingöl Province...

, Sureya and his family were forcefully deported to Bilecik

Bilecik

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, a Turkish city in western Anatolia. This had a significant affect on his poems.

He graduated from the Political Sciences Faculty of Ankara University

Ankara University

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. He was the editor-in-chief of the Papirus literary magazine

Literary magazine

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. 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

Garip

Garip was a group of Turkish poets. The group was also known as the First New Movement. It was composed of Orhan Veli, Oktay Rifat and Melih Cevdet, who had been friends since high school. The name "Garip" signalled a break with the conventional, decadent style of Turkish poetry and literature at...

 movement. Love

Love

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, 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

Sunay Akin

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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

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