Abdurrahman Cahit Zarifoğlu (b. 1 July 1940, Ankara - d. 7 June 1987, İstanbul), Turkish

Turkey

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 poet

Poet

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, writer

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Life

He is from Kahramanmaraş

Kahramanmaras

-Industry:Kahramanmaraş's industry is mainly based on textile and ice cream. Kahramanmaraş is one of the biggest textile industry cities of Turkey. Companies like Kipaş, İskur, Arsan and Bozkurt are one of the richest companies in the city...

. Born in Ankara

Ankara

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 where the capital of Turkey

Turkey

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 in 1940 and he grown up in Kahramanmaraş. He started to writing at his highschool years at Kahramanmaraş High School with writing poems. After the high school, he went to İstanbul

Istanbul

Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

 and started to German Language and Literature department in İstanbul University

Istanbul University

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. He published his poems in Diriliş Dergisi. In 1976, he published his some poems, stories, diaries and conversations in Mavera Dergisi which he was also one of this magazine's founders.

He worked as teacher in different times. When he was publishing Mavera Dergisi, he was also working in TRT

TRT

-Broadcasting:* Tamil Radio and Television, a former Tamil language satellite channel* Televisora Regional del Táchira, a Venezuelan regional television network based in the city of San Cristóbal in Táchira...

 as translator. He died in 1987. His grave is in Küplüce Cemetery in Beylerbeyi

Beylerbeyi

Beylerbeyi is a neighborhood in the Üsküdar municipality of Istanbul, Turkey. It is located on the Asian shore of the Bosporus, to the north of the Bosphorus Bridge. It is bordered on the northeast by the neighborhood of Çengelköy, on the east by Kirazlıtepe, on the southeast by Küplüce, on the...

 

Poetry

• İşaret Çocukları (1967)
• Yedi Güzel Adam (1973)
• Menziller (1977)
• Korku ve Yakarış (1986)
• Gülücük (1989)
• Ağaç Okul (1990)

Stories and Novels

• İns
  INS
  The acronym "INS" can refer to:* Immigration and Naturalization Service * Indian Naval Ship, formerly Her Majesty's Indian Ship prior to 1950....
  
   (1974)
• Serçekuş (1983)
• Ağaçkakanlar (1983)
• Katıraslan (1983)
• Yürek Dede ile Padişah (1984)
• Savaş Ritmleri (1985)
• Motorlu Kuş (1987)