Metin Cengiz

OĞLUM

jezik: turščina

prevodov: nemščina (Mein Sohn), angleščina (MY SON), francoščina (MON FILS ), hindujščina (मेरा बेटा), hrvaščina (Spoznavajući svijet ), madžarščina (A FIAM), italijanščina (MIO FIGLIO), romunščina (Fiul meu), albanščina (IM BIR)

OĞLUM

Uzun bir yola benzetiyor beni oğlum
Anasını toprağa
Ben uzakta hapishanede yatmışım
Anası yürümeyi öğretmiş ona

prevodov:

jezik: nemščina

Mein Sohn

Mein Sohn vergleicht mich mit einem langen Weg
Seine Mutter mit der Erde
Ich lag fern in einem Gefängnis
Seine Mutter brachte ihm das Laufen bei

jezik: angleščina

MY SON

My son resembles me on a long way
And his mom to earth
I’m away, in prison
His mom taught him to walk

jezik: francoščina

MON FILS

Mon fils me compare à une longue route
Et sa mère à la terre
J'étais en prison au loin
Sa mère lui a appris à marcher

jezik: hindujščina

मेरा बेटा

मेरा बेटा काफी कुछ मेरे जैसा है
उसकी माँ जमीन जैसी
मैं दूर हूँ, केद में
उसकी माँ ने उसे चलना सिखाया

jezik: hrvaščina

Spoznavajući svijet

Mene moj sin poredi sa dugačkim putem
A majku sa zemljom
Ja sam bio daleko, u zatvoru
A majka ga je učila hodati

jezik: madžarščina

A FIAM

A fiam hosszu utra hasonlit
Az anyja meg a foldre
En tavol vagyok, bortonben
Jarni az anyja tanitotta meg

jezik: italijanščina

MIO FIGLIO

Mio figlio mi fa somigliare a una lunga strada
e sua madre, alla terra
io ero lontano, in prigione
sua madre gli ha insegnato a camminare

jezik: romunščina

Fiul meu

Fiul meu mă face să par un drum lung
Şi mama sa, pămîntul
Eu, departe, am fost la închisoare
Mama lui l-a învătat să meargă

jezik: albanščina

IM BIR

Im bir sa rruga e gjatë me mua ngjan
Dhe sa toka me të ëmën
Në burg, larg, fort larg jam
E ëma e mësoi të ecte, si ta bindte këmbën

Metin Cengiz

* 03.05.1953, Ardahan, Turčija
živi v: Istanbul, Turčija

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.

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.

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