Metin Cengiz 
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Metin Cengiz 
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* 03.05.1953, Ardahan, Turquia
vive em: Istanbul, Turquia

Metin Cengiz (b. 3 May 1953, Göle) is a poet and a writer. He attended to Göle primary School (1964), Kars Alparslan High School (1972), and graduated from Erzurum Atatürk University, Faculty of Basic Sciences and Foreign Languages, Department of French Language and Literature (1977). While studying at the university he worked as a civil officer at the Turkish Statistical Institute for a short time (1973). In his youth he has been arrested many times for publishing political journals and engaging in political acts. He worked as a French language teacher between 1977-1987 in the provinces of Erzurum, Kars, and İstanbul.  Meanwhile, he completed his studies at Marmara University, Department of French Language. He was sentenced for two years by the military government of 12 September 1980. During his service as a teacher he was exiled many times. Finally, when he was exiled to Muş, a rural province in the eastern Turkey, he resigned from civil service. He turned back to İstanbul and began to work as a proofreader, editor and translator at several publishing houses. In 1993 he returned to public service as a French language teacher and retired in 2002.

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He wrote particularly on the problems of poetry in major literature journals such as Hurriyet Gösteri, Varlık, Yön and in various other newspapers. He established the Şiirden Publishing House in 2005, in collaboration with his friends, to publish poems and essays concerning poetry theory. He organized several international festivals in Yalova, Çanakkale and Nicosia. He also worked as an advisor for Eskişehir International Poetry Festival and for a short period he was one of the organizers of the International  Kartal Poetry Festival. He attended numerous International festivals and symposiums.

He won the Behçet Necatigil Poetry Award in 1996 with his book Şarkılar Kitabı (The Book of Songs), Melih Cevdet Anday Poetry Award in 2010 with his book Bütün Şiirleri 1 (Collected poems 1), Bütün Şiirleri 2 (collected poems 2) and Tudor Arghezi İnternational Poetry Award  in 2011 (Romanya). In 2014, he received Mersin City award for literature, Turkey's most prestigious literature award. He is a member of Writers Union of Turkey, the Association of Turkish PEN Writers and the Turkish Authors Association.

His poems are translated into several languages such as French, English, German, Spanish, Italian, Bosnian, Russian, Romanian, Indu, Arabic, Hebrew, Azerbaijani, Serbian, and Kurdish. His selected poems are published in French with the title Apres le Tempete et Autres Poemes (2006, Harmattan). Levant Magazine published his eight poems along with their original Turkish under the title "Divan" (2009). In Romania his poems are published in magazines Convorbiri Literare and Poesia (2011). He edited the Anthology titled Çağdaş 17 Türk Şairi (Contemporary 17 Turkish Poets) which is published by Harmattan Publishing (2009). With the collaboration of French poet Michel Ménassé, he completed a translation project. In this Project, poems of French poets were published in Turkish in Şiirden journal, and the poems of Turkish poets were published in French in Europe journal (2014, no: 1019) under the title "Voix d'İstanbul" (the Sound of İstanbul). His selected poems are being prepared for publishing in Albania, Colombia, Italy, and United States of America.

 “His poetry benefits from tradition by challenging it, reflects the realities of the modern world and tries to elaborate them in dept with the realities of life as reflected from his internal world. Being known with his articles on poetry in his early period, the poet has become one of the pioneers of the period after 1980, with his theoretical articles and discussions on poetry.

Publicações
  • Bir Tufan Sonrası

    Istanbul, 1988:

  • Büyük Sevişme

    Istanbul, 1989,

  • Zehrinde Açan Zambak

    Istanbul, 1991:

  • İpek’A

    Istanbul, 1993:

  • Şarkılar Kitabı

    Istanbul, 1995,

  • Gençlik Çağı

    Istanbul, 1998

  • Aşk İlahileri & Günümüze Hüzzamlar

    Istanbul, 2006,

  • After A Deluge

    translated by Gérard Augustin

    Paris-Fransa: Harmattan, 2006

  • Özgürlük Şiirleri

    Istanbul, 2008

  • Sonsuzluk Çiseler Büyük Sularda & Dünyaya Katkımız Ebru Vurgusu

    2. edition

    Istanbul, 2015,

  • İmgeler Benim Yurdum

    Istanbul, 2011:

  • Yeryüzü Halleri

    Istanbul, 2013,

  • Poemas Escogidos

    [Selected poems, bilingual/iki dilli]

    translated by Jaime B. Rosa

    Madrid/İspanya: Liber Flactory, 2013

  • Povremeno

    translated by Avdija Salkoviç

    Novi Pazar/Sırbistan: Narodna Biblioteka "Dostitej Obradovic", 2014

  • Elemli Şiirler

    alias "Galip"

    Istanbul, 2015,

  • Fekete És Fehér

    translated by Attila Balaz

    Budapeşte/ Macaristan: Ab-Art, 2015

  • Duet of Nights

    [bilingual/iki dilli]

    translated by Mariko Sumikura, with Akira Asuka's poems, common book,

    Kyoto/ Japonya: Japon Universal Poets Association, 2015

  • Măt Tròi Tinh Khiễt

    [The Pure Sun]

    translated by Nguyen Thi Tuyet Ngan

    Hanoi / Vietnam: Nha Xuat Bân Hoi Nha Van, 2015

  • Poems for love and revolution

    Translated by divers turkish hands

    Berkeley, Kalifornia / USA: CC. Marimbo, 2017

Prêmios
  • 1996 Behçet Necatigil Poetry Prize

  • 2010 Melih Cevdet Anday Poetry Prize

  • International Tudor Arghezi Poetry Prize

  • 2014 Mersin City Literature Prize