Mehmet Yaşın (born 1958) is a Turkish Cypriot poet and author.
Biography Mehmet Yaşın was born in the Yenişehir neighborhood of Nicosiasöğündürme şafgı da OKUYACAM!.. (Yenidüzen newspaper) to Turkish-Cypriot parents. His father is the accomplished poet and author Özker Yaşın, and his sister the well-known poet Neşe Yaşın.
He left Cyprus at the age of 17, and went to study in Turkey,Kıbrıs'ta yazarlık zor (Radikal) where he studied at the Ankara University and Istanbul University. He received postgraduate education at the University of Birmingham and University of Middlesex,Mehmet Yashin (Cypnet.co.uk) and was also educated in France and the United States. He speaks Turkish, English and Greek.
His first poem was published in 1979 at the Turkish journal Sanat Emeği ("Art Work"), and his poems received attention in the journals Yazko Edebiyat, Adam Sanat and Defter in the 1980s. His first book of poetry, Sevgilim Ölü Asker ("My Darling, Dead Soldier") received critical acclaim and was awarded the Academy Poetry Award and the A. Kadir Award, but it was banned due to its "dangerous content".Khora Kitap Cafe'de Mehmet Yaşın'la edebiyat sohbeti (Kıbrıs Postası) He published his first novel, Your Kinsman Pisces, in 1994.
His work often features the theme of loss, as he was heavily influenced by the loss of the cosmopolitan quality of his neighborhood, Yenişehir, and the destruction of their house in the 1974 conflict. In 2002, he published poems in the Karamanli Turkish language, at a period when he withdrew from publicity.Kayıp şair: Mehmet Yaşın (Radikal) He published the book An Anthology of Cypriot Poetry, where he translated Cypriot poems from the Phoenician and Lusignan eras for the first time, with the aid of historians and archaeologists. The book received the Memet Fuat Criticism/Inquisition Award. At the time, he delivered lessons of Turkish Cypriot literature, comparative literature and theory of translation in northern and southern Cyprus.Memet Fuat'a Saygı (Milliyet)
His works have been translated to more than 20 languages and have been set to music in Cyprus, Turkey, the UK and the Netherlands.
Bibliography My Love The Dead Soldier, 1984 Ladder of Light, 1986 Pathos, 1990 The Armchair of the Promise, 1993 Your Kinsman Pisces, 1994 Anthology of Turkish-Cypriot Poetry: 18th to 20th centuries, 1994 Poeturka, 1995 To Repair a Daydream, 1998 Anthology of Early Cypriot Poetry: 9th century BC to 18th century AD, 1999 Step-Mothertongue – From Nationalism to Multiculturalism: Literatures of Cyprus, Greece and Turkey, 2000 Don't Go Back To Kyrenia, 2001 His Name is on the List of the Missing, 2002 The Yellow Bird, 2007 Heart-stopped in Time, 2009 The Child that Fled His Home, 2013 Yellow Amber, 2014
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