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Gonca Özmen was born in Burdur in 1982. She graduated from the Department of English Language and Literature at Istanbul University in 2004. She completed her master’s degree at her alma mater in 2008. In 1999, she was awarded the Ali Rιza Ertan Poetry Prize for her poem. Her first poetry collection, “Kuytumda” (In My Nook) won the Orhon Murat Arıburnu Poetry Prize and was published in 2000. Her poems have been published in many magazines such as “Kitap-lık”, “Varlık”, “Adam Sanat”, “Yasak Meyve”, “Dize”, “Le Poete Travaille”, “Akatalpa”, “Edebiyat ve Eleşgifi”, “Kül”, “Yom Sanat”, “Uç”, “Düşlem”, and “Bahçe”; and have been translated into English, German, French, Spanish and Iranian. She has also translated poems into Turkish. In 2003, Özmen won the Berna Moran Poetry Prize, sponsored by Istanbul University. Her second book “Belki Sessiz” (Quiet, Maybe) was published by Yapı Kredi Publishing House in February 2008. She edits the literary magazine “Palto” (Overcoat), published monthly in Istanbul. She has participated in international poetry readings in Heidelberg, Hamburg, Paris and Slovenia. Currently, Özmen is continuing her doctoral degree at her alma mater.
Poems:
Wound
Wet
Moontime
Autumn Chills
Love ... Flowing To Body
Stone Hallway
Cross-Breed
Handkerchief
The Land Of Mulberry
Naked
Start Again
You
Shadows
Lift The Clouds
Stain
What Happens
Crossroads
On The Way
Memet
Mustafa
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