Cahit Zarifoğlu Explained

Cahit Zarifoğlu
Birth Name:Abdurrahman Cahit Zarifoğlu
Birth Date:1940 7, df=yes
Birth Place:Ankara, Turkey
Death Place:Istanbul, Turkey
Genre:Poem, novel
Notableworks:Poems, Yaşamak
Signature:Cahit Zarifoğlu'nun İmzası.jpg
Nationality:Turkish

Abdurrahman Cahit Zarifoğlu (1 July 1940 – 7 June 1987)[1] [2] was a Turkish poet and writer.

Life

Zarifoğlu was born in Ankara in 1940 and he grew up in Kahramanmaraş. He started writing poetry during his high school years at Kahramanmaraş High School. After high school, he went to Istanbul and studied German language and literature at Istanbul University. He published his poems in Diriliş magazine. He was a contributor to the magazines Yeni Dergi, Soyut, and Papirüs between 1961 and 1971.[3] In 1976, he published some of his poems, stories, diaries and conversations in Mavera. He was also one of the founders of this magazine.

He worked as a teacher several times. When he was publishing the Mavera magazine, he was also working in TRT as a translator. He died in 1987. His grave is in Küplüce Cemetery in Beylerbeyi.[4]

Bibliography

Poetry

Diaries

Stories and Novels

Theatre

Essays

Other

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Haber 7»KÜLTÜR Zarifoğlu 25'inci ölüm yıl dönümünde anılacak . haber7 . 26 January 2014 . 5 June 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141006080426/http://www.haber7.com/kultur/haber/887566-zarifoglu-25inci-olum-yil-donumunde-anilacak . 6 October 2014.
  2. Web site: Yürekli . Mustafa . Cahit Zarifoğlu üçüncü askeri müdahalede öldü.. . haber7 . 26 January 2014 . 7 June 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141006085957/http://www.haber7.com/yazarlar/mustafa-yurekli/410019-cahit-zarifoglu-ucuncu-askeri-mudahalede-oldu . 6 October 2014.
  3. Barış Büyükokutan. In pursuit of non-Western deep secularities: selfhood and the “Westphalia moment” in Turkish literary milieux. New Perspectives on Turkey. 56. 2017. 10.1017/npt.2017.3. 24.
  4. Web site: He introduces himself . 11 February 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101211175539/http://www.zarifce.com/zarifce/ingilizce/live.html . 11 December 2010 . dead.