Gonca Özmen

She was born in Burdur in 1982. She was graduated from English Language and Literature Department of Istanbul University in 2004. She took her M. A. degree in 2008 and now she is a PH. D. student at the same department. Her first poem was published in 1997 when she was fifteen years old. She was rewarded as ‘worth paying attention poet’ in Yaşar Nabi Nayır Youth Prizes in the same year. She was awarded with Ali Rıza Ertan Poetry Prize in 1999. Her first poetry book Kuytumda (In My Nook) was published in 2000. This book was awarded with Orhan Murat Arıburnu Poetry Prize. She won Berna Moran Poetry Prize which is given by Istanbul University in 2003. She was also rewarded by one of her essays on a Turkish poet, Edip Cansever in 2005 Homeros Criticism Prizes. Her second book Belki Sessiz (Maybe Quiet) was published by Yapı Kredi Publishing House in February 2008. She has been participated in the international poetry readings in Turkey, Heidelberg, Hamburg, Paris and Slovenia. Some of her poems are translated into Spanish, French, English, German, Slovenian and Persian. She has been living in Istanbul since 2000.

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