Ataol Behramoğlu

Ataol Behramoğlu was born on 13 April 1942 at Çatalca, near Istanbul. A graduate in Russian language and literature from Ankara in 1966, he lived in London and Paris from 1970 to 1972, then worked at Moscow University until 1974. He founded journals, one in 1970 with the poet İsmet Özel, another in 1975 with his brother. Arrested in 1982 with the leadership of the Turkish Peace Association, he spent about ten months in detention, settled in Paris in 1984 and returned in 1989. A translator of Pushkin and Chekhov, he teaches Russian literature at Istanbul University.

In the catalogue 1

• PoetryNe Yağmur… Ne ŞiirlerAtaol Behramoğlu · 1976not translated into EnglishLiterature