Özdemir Asaf

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Özdemir Asaf
Born Halit Özdemir Arun
(1923-06-11)June 11, 1923
Ankara, Turkey
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İstanbul
Occupation Writer, Poet
Language Turkish
Nationality  Turkey
Education Galatasaray High School
Kabataş High School
İstanbul University
Spouses
Children
  • Seda Arun
  • Gün Arun
  • Olgun Arun
  • Etkin Arun
Relatives Mehmet Asaf (father)

Özdemir Asaf (11 June 1923, Ankara – 28 January 1981, Istanbul) was one of the prominent Turkish poets during the early Republican period.[1]

Biography

Life

He was born on 11 June 1923 in Ankara. His real name is Halit Özdemir Arun. His father, Mehmet Asaf, is one of the founders of the Council of State.[2] In 1930, the year his father died, he entered the first part of Galatasaray High School.[3] In 1941, in the 11th grade, he went to Kabataş High School for Boys with an additional exam and graduated in 1942. He attended the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Economics (until the 3rd grade), and the Faculty of Journalism for one year. Meanwhile, he worked for Tanin and Zaman newspapers and made translations.[4]

Career

His first article published in Servet-i Fünun (Uyanış) magazine. He is founder of Sanat Basımevi (1951) and published his books under the name of Yuvarlak Masa Yayınları. He became one of the founders of the Temel Hakları Yaşatma Derneği (Fundamental Rights Survival Association), which was founded in 1962 under the leadership of Mehmet Ali Aybar.[5]

Together with Attila İlhan, he was the most loved poet of the literary matinees, which was the favorite activity of the 1950s.[5] Özdemir Asaf, who visited the coastal cities of the Atlantic and the east of America in 1954, traveled almost all of Europe, starting from Lapland in 1959. In 1966, at the invitation of the Macedonian Writer's Union, he went to Yugoslavia and participated in the poetry congress.[2]

Bibliography

A poem of Özdemir Asaf - Lavinia (1957)[7]

Turkish

Sana gitme demeyeceğim.
Üşüyorsun ceketimi al.
Günün en güzel saatleri bunlar.
Yanımda kal.

Sana gitme demeyeceğim.
Gene de sen bilirsin.
Yalanlar istiyorsan yalanlar söyleyeyim,
İncinirsin.

English

I won't ask you not to go.
You are cold, take my jacket.
These are the loveliest times of the day.
Stay with me.

I won't ask you not to go.
Still, you know.
If you want lies, I will tell you lies,
You'll be hurt.

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