Lâle Müldür was born in 1956, in Aydın

Aydin

Aydın is a city in and the seat of Aydın Province in Turkey's Aegean Region. The city is located at the heart of the lower valley of Büyük Menderes River at a commanding position for the region extending from the uplands of the valley down to the seacoast...

, Turkey

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. She is a Turkish poet and writer and is considered one of the most influential Turkish poets of the last several decades. Her eccentric style sets her apart from her peers.

After graduating from Robert College

Robert College

Robert College of Istanbul , is one of the most selective independent private high schools in Turkey. Robert College is a co-educational, boarding school with a wooded campus on the European side of Istanbul between the two bridges on the Bosphorus, with the Arnavutköy district to the east, and...

, Müldür went to Florence

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 to study with a poetry scholarship. She returned to Turkey to study electronics and economics for one year each at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi in Ankara

Ankara

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. After two years in Ankara, she went to the United Kingdom

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, where she received her Bachelor of Science

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 in economics from the University of Manchester

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, and her Master of Science

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 in the sociology of literature from Essex University.

Müldür then married a Belgian painter named Patrick Claeys and lived in Brussels

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 from 1983 to 1987.

Müldür worked as a columnist

Columnist

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 for the Radikal

Radikal

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newspaper for a time.

In 2002, Müldür suffered a brain hemorrhage, but soon recovered.

She currently lives in Istanbul

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Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

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Some of her poems have been set to music, the most famous being "Destina" by Yeni Türkü

Yeni Türkü

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Müldür's work has also received international recognition. Two selections of her poetry have been translated into English

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, one titled Water Music (Dublin: Poetry Ireland

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/Éigse Éireann; Tyrone Guthrie Centre

Tyrone Guthrie Centre

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, 1998), the other titled I Too Went to the Hunt of the Deer (Istanbul: Artshop Yayıncılık, 2008). A collection of her work inspired by the French painter Colette Deblé has been translated into French

French language

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, Ainsi parle la fille de pluie / Yağmur Kızı Böyle Diyor (Istanbul: Institut français, 2002).

Poetry

• Uzak Fırtına (1988)
• Voyıcır 2 (1990, written with Ahmet Güntan)
• Seriler Kitabı (1991)
• Kuzey Defterleri (1992)
• Buhurumeryem (1993)
• Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk (1998)
• Saatler / Geyikler (2001)
• Ultra-zone'da Ultrason (2006; Altın Portakal (Golden Orange) Poetry Award, 2007)
• Güneş Tutulması 1999 (2008)
• Medine & Kavun Likörü (2009, written with Seyhan Özdamar)

Collected newspaper columns

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• Anne Ben Barbar Mıyım? (1998)
• Haller Leyla (2006)