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B O O K S F R O M T U R K E Y
A H M E T E M İ N A T A S O Y
Ahmet Emin Atasoy (Bulgaria, 1944) graduated from the Department of Turkish
Philology at Sofia University. He worked as a literature teacher, art reporter and
director of reading halls. He took refuge in Turkey in 1989. His poetry, articles and
translations were published in magazines such as Cumhuriyet Kitap, Çağdaş Türk
Dili, Düşlem, Kavram-Karmaşa, Sincan İstasyonu, and Yaba Edebiyat. His poems were
translated into Azerbaijan Turkish, Bulgarian, English, Macedonian and Romanian.
He translated poems by several Bulgarian and Russian poets into Turkish. In 2008, he
was awarded “The Great Poetry Award” in the Argeş 11th International Poetry Festival
(Romania) and “2008 Special Jury Award” of the European Culture Academy (Bulgaria)
for Orpheus’un Liri (Orpheus’ Lyre).
WORKS: Poetry: Sensizliğinle Beraber (Together with your absence), Yüreğimde Şirin
Tuna Aktıkça (As long as sweet Danube flows in my heart), Duygu Burgacı (Whirlpool
of Emotions), Rüzgârların Küstürdüğü Yapraklar (The Leavess that the wind
offended), Perdeledim Penceremi Geceye (I shut the curtains of my window to the
night) , Aşkın Yaşı Yok (Love is ageless), Damla Damla (Drop by drop), Sevgi Denizi-
Çocuklar İçin Şiirler (Sea of Love-Poems for Children), Küllerde Kor Ararken (Looking
for a glowing piece of coal in ashes), Dünya Vurdu Başıma (The world hit me on the
head), Çocuk Şiirleri (Children’s Poems), Kalabalık Yerinde Yalnızlığın (In the crowded
part of loneliness); Compilation and Anthology: 1967’nin Bıraktığı Şiirler (Poems Left
by 1967 in Bulgaria with Naci Ferhadov), XV Yüzyıldan Bugüne Rumeli Motifli Türk
Şiiri Antolojisi (The Anthology of Turkish Poetry with Rumelian Motifs since XV.
Century), Bursa Esintileri (Breezes of Bursa, Turkish Short Stories, Bulgarian, 2008)
Essay: Birikmiş Yansımalar Vitrini (The Showcase of Collected Reflections)
YANKILARIN YANKISI
THE ECHO OF ECHOES
Makavey Publishing, Macedonia, 2008
78 pages, Poetry
Translated by Fahri Ali and Branko Tsvetoski
ISBN:9789989164927
ahmeteminatasoy@yahoo.com
The 78-page book contains
approximately 60 poems chosen by the
poet himself from his last seven books.
The poems, which were translated into
Macedonian by the Macedonian-Turkish
poet and translator Fahri Ali, were edited
and published by the distinguished
Macedonian poet and publisher of our
day, Branko Tsvetoski.