Efe Murad
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| Born | Efe Murat Balıkçıoğlu Istanbul, Turkey. |
| Nationality | Turkish |
Efe Murad is a Turkish poet, translator and historian.
Biography[]
Efe Murad studied philosophy at Princeton University and completed his PhD in Ottoman History and Arabic Philosophy at Harvard University.[1][2] Together with Cem Kurtuluş, he wrote the Matter-Poetry Manifesto in 2004. He has published five books of poetry and five books of translations from the Iranian poets Mahmoud Mosharraf Azad Tehrani and Fereydoon Moshiri and from the American poets C. K. Williams, Susan Howe, and Lyn Hejinian in Turkish. A recipient of "Meral Divitçi Prize for Turkish Poetry in Translation" together with Sidney Wade,[3] he prepared a selection from the œuvre of Turkish poet Melih Cevdet Anday under the title "Silent Stones" (Talisman Press, 2017).[4] His poems, writings and translations in English have appeared in a wide range of journals including "The American Reader", "Five Points", "Denver Quarterly", "Guernica",[5] "Critical Flame",[6] "Turkish Poetry Today", "Poet Lore", "Asymptote",[7] "Jacket",[8][9] and "Two Lines", and exhibitions including the 13th Istanbul Biennial.[10] He is currently working on the complete Turkish translations of Ezra Pound’s "Cantos".
References[]
- ^ "Bio & Research". scholar.harvard.edu.
- ^ "Efe Murad | Jacket2". jacket2.org.
- ^ "Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival: 2014 Meral Divitci Winners". www.nazimhikmetpoetryfestival.org.
- ^ "Silent Stones Selected Poems Of Melih Cevdet Anday". www.spdbooks.org.
- ^ Wade, Sidney; Murad, Efe (May 1, 2012). "Voice". Guernica.
- ^ "Garip": A Manifesto (1941), The Critical Flame
- ^ "A Poem in the Manner of Karacaoglan - Asymptote". www.asymptotejournal.com.
- ^ A Word's Autobiography on Seyhan Erözçelik in "Jacket", [1]
- ^ "Jacket 34 - October 2007 - Murat Nemet-Nejat: A Godless Sufism: Selections from "Eda: A Contemporary Anthology of 20th Century Turkish Poetry", Murat Nemet-Nejat, Ed". jacketmagazine.com.
- ^ "Pivot with Shahzia Sikander (2013)". Du Yun.
External links[]
- Poems in English in "Jacket", Jacket 34 - October 2007 - Murat Nemet-Nejat: A Godless Sufism: Selections from «Eda: A Contemporary Anthology of 20th Century Turkish Poetry», Murat Nemet-Nejat, Ed.
- On "The Materialist Poem", Jacket 34 - October 2007 - Murat Nemet-Nejat: A Godless Sufism: Essays on, including selected translations from, «Eda: «Eda: A Contemporary Anthology of 20th Century Turkish Poetry», Murat Nemet-Nejat, Ed.
- "A poem in the manner of Karacaoglan", translations by Sidney Wade and Efe Murad in "Asymptote" sections 1 and 4; sections 6-8
- "Voice", a translation by Sidney Wade and Efe Murad in "Guernica" Voice
- "Garip: A Turkish Poetry Manifesto", a translation by Sidney Wade and Efe Murad in "Critical Flame" The Critical Flame
- A Word's Autobiography on Seyhan Erözçelik in "Jacket", A word's autobiography | Jacket2
- "Silent Stones: Selected Poems of Melih Cevdet Anday", Silent Stones: Selected Poems of Melih Cevdet Anday
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- 1987 births
- People from Istanbul
- Turkish poets
- 21st-century poets
- Living people
- Princeton University alumni
- Harvard University alumni