Bio-Sketch
Mevlut Ceylan was born in
Ankara and since 1979 has been living in self-imposed
exile in London. He has published three collections of
his own poetry in Turkish and has translated many
Turkish poets into English, publishing a series of
chapbooks from Core Publications of the work of Cahit
Zarifoglu, Arif Ay, Nuri Pakdil,Erdem Bayazit and Asaf
Halet Celebi among others and editing two anthologies of
Turkish poetry in translation.
He
founded Core: an international poetry magazine
with the poet Feyyaz Fergar in London.
He has translated into Turkish selections
from James Joyce's Chamber Music, RD Laing's
Conversations with Children;
also translated poems by Mahmoud Darwish, Faiz Ahmed Faiz,
Marvin X, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Kobi Nazrul Islam, among many
others, in Turkish literary journals.
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