Poetry
Ne Yağmur… Ne Şiirler
Not translated into English
Ataol Behramoğlu · 1976
Synopsis
A poetry collection published in 1976, according to turkedebiyati.org; its title has been translated into English as “Neither Rain… Nor Poems”. The poems it contains, their form or their themes are not described; the book is mentioned in the list of the author's works and in connection with the seizure to which it was subjected. This synopsis therefore sticks to these landmarks, for lack of a cross-checked description.
Context
A new edition of the collection, published in 1981, was seized after the coup d'état of 1980. The site Listelist reports that a court ordered its seizure and destruction, that the author was placed under surveillance for a week, and that the book was finally cleared. The collection dates from the years when the author, back from Moscow, was publishing in the committed magazine founded in 1975, according to turkedebiyati.org. The setting of his verses to music on a cabaret stage concerns another of his collections.
Who it is for
Poems in Turkish; the collection is not translated, but a selection from the author's work appeared in French in 2021.
Prizes and reception
The author received the Lotus Prize of the Afro-Asian Writers' Union in 1982, and a major poetry prize in 2003.
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