Mehmet Hakkı Suçin Explained

Birth Place:Tuzluca, Turkey
Awards:Best Translated Book Award hosted by Dünya Kitap, 2022

Mehmet Hakkı Suçin (born 1970) is an author, literary translator and Arabist from Turkey.

Biography

Born in Tuzluca, (then part of Kars), he graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Letters in 1993. He worked as a translator and interpreter in the Kuwait Embassy to Turkey (1993–1998). He completed his masters thesis on Egyptian novelist and short story author Yahya Haqqi. His PhD was on equivalence problems and strategies in Arabic-Turkish translation and vice versa.

Suçin was one of the team members who produced the semi-dramatic documentary named "Golden Wings: A Story of Courage", sponsored by Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT).[1] He also worked as a visiting fellow at The Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, at the University of Manchester.

Suçin chaired commission prepared Arabic curriculums based on CEFR for primary and secondary schools in Turkey (2012-2014). Suçin was one of the Members of the Judges at the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) in 2014, and Members of Judges at the Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation in 2015. He won “The Best Translated Book” by Turkish Authors' Association in Turkey in 2016. He has been conducting workshops on literary translation, translation and interpretation since 2012.

He translated into Turkish from both classical and modern Arabic literature including Mu'allaqat poets, Ibn Hazm, Adonis, Mahmoud Darwish, Kahlil Gibran, Nizar Qabbani, Mohammed Bennis and many others. Suçin also translated Turkish literature into Arabic. He is a member of International Association of Arabic Dialectology (AIDA). His studies focus on translation studies, Arabic literature, and teaching Arabic to non-native speakers. He recently works as a Full Professor at Gazi University in Ankara, Turkey.

Works

Some of his basic publications:[2]

Translations

Awards

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bora AKARSEL . 2010-01-24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110726213128/http://www.kameraarkasi.org/yonetmenler/belgeseller/2001/altinkanatlar.html . 2011-07-26.
  2. Web site: Mehmet Hakkı Suçin - Gazi University - Academia.edu . gazi.academia.edu . 29 December 2017.
  3. Ortaöğretim I, II ve III. Yabancı Dil Arapça Dersi Öğretim Programı (Arabic Curriculum for Secondary Schools in Turkey based on CEFR) . Mehmet Hakkı . Suçin . Suçin, M. H. Et. Al. (2012). Ortaöğretim I, II Ve III. Yabancı Dil Arapça Dersi Öğretim Programı (Arabic Curriculum for Secondary Schools in Turkey Based on CEFR). Ankara: Ministry of National Education . 29 December 2017.
  4. İlköğretim Arapça Dersi Öğretim Programı (Arabic Curriculum for Primary Education in Turkey) . Mehmet Hakkı . Suçin . Suçin, M.H. Et. Al. (2011). İlköğretim Arapça Dersi Öğretim Programı (Arabic Curriculum for Primary Education in Turkey). Ankara: Ministry of National Education . 29 December 2017.
  5. 10.1080/07268601003678627 . 30 . Turkish and Arabic Reduplications in Contrast . Australian Journal of Linguistics . 2010 . 209–226 . Suçin . Mehmet Hakkı . 62199964 . 2.
  6. Web site: 2020'nin en iyi 50 kitabı: Edebiyat . 2020-12-26 . www.hurriyet.com.tr . tr.
  7. Qawa'id al-Lugha al-Turkiyya li Ghair al-Natiqeen Biha [Turkish Grammar for Arabs] ]. Mehmet Hakkı . Suçin . Academia.edu . January 2003 . 29 December 2017.
  8. https://hta.qa/media-center/topic/170
  9. Web site: 2016 Yılının "Yazar, Fikir Adamı ve Sanatçıları" Açıklandı . . 28 February 2017 . 26 October 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170906224212/http://www.tyb.org.tr/2016-yilinin-yazar-fikir-adami-ve-sanatcilari-aciklandi-28197h.htm . 6 September 2017 . live.
  10. Web site: DÜNYA Kitap, "En İyiler"i seçti . Dünya (newspaper) . 8 April 2022 . 9 April 2022.