Nurduran Duman is a Turkish poet, writer, essayist, translator.

Life

She wrote her first poem when she was 8 years old. When she was 9, she promised herself she would become a writer in the future. She liked poetry, and so settled on becoming a poet.

Because of her passion for the ocean, she attended Istanbul Technical University

Istanbul Technical University

Istanbul Technical University is an international technical university located in Istanbul, Turkey. It is the world's third oldest technical university dedicated to engineering sciences as well as social sciences recently, and is one of the most prominent educational institutions in Turkey...

, Faculty of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering and graduated as an Ocean Engineer and a Naval Architect.

She is a member of International PEN

International PEN

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. Her poems, translations (poems and stories), poetic articles, book reviews and interviews with foreign writers have been published in various magazines such as Cumhuriyet Kitap, Varlık, Yasakmeyve, Eşik Cini, and Edebiyat ve Eleştiri. She worked on translating the poems of Anne Sexton

Anne Sexton

Anne Sexton was an American poet, known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967...

, Sara Teasdale

Sara Teasdale

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, Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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 and the stories of Mary Woronow, Eileen Gunn

Eileen Gunn

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, Monica Arac de Nyeko

Monica Arac de Nyeko

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, Anna Tambour

Anna Tambour

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, Karen Joy Fowler

Karen Joy Fowler

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She lives in Istanbul

Istanbul

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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Books

• The Defeat Game - Yenilgi Oyunu (Poetry)
• Exchanging Glances With Istanbul - Istanbul'la Bakışmak, Salacak

Other works

• She has held various positions in the theatre (actress, director, electrician) for years.

• She was the producer and presenter of the radio programme "Yazın Küresi", and its television equivalent.