Gokçenur Ç
Gökçenur Ç. was born in Istanbul in 1971 and spent his childhood in a number of Turkish cities. He graduated Istanbul Technical Univercity Electrical Engineering Faculty and has a Master's degree in Business Administration from Istanbul University.
He started publishing his poems in Turkish magazines since 1990 and his first collection Handbook of Every Book came out in 2006 and second one Rest of the Words in 2010. Both books are published by Yitik Ülke (Lost Land) Publishing House. His third book “The Only Way of Looking at Thirteen Blackbirds at Once” is published by I Libri Del Merlo publishing house in 2011, in Italy in Italian and Turkish bilingually.
He has attended several poetry and translation workshops and festivals in Riga, Vilnius, Istanbul, Athens, Tel-Aviv, Munich, Belgrade, Lodeve, Sofia and Cunda. His poems have been translated to English, German, French, Greek, Bulgarian, Swedish, Portuguese, Japanese, Romanian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Serbian, Croatian and Hebrew and published in literary magazines.
He has translated Wallace Stevens, Paul Auster and a modern Japanese haiku anthology into Turkish, and is currently preparing an anthology of modern American poetry.
He is the prime mover and co-director of Word Express (www.word-express.org)
His pen name is Gökçenur Ç
News
Word Express writer Ognjen Spahić from Montenegro will be visiting London for events with his UK publisher, Istros Books, from the 15th - 18th of May. See the Istros Books website for more details.
This year's Prague Book Fair - Svet Knihy - is focusing on literature the Black Sea region. Word Express writers Ivan Hristov (Bulgaria), Zaza Koshkadze (Georgia) and Pelin Özer (Turkey) will talk about their Balkan literary journey and read their work at the gala evening. Go to the Literature Across Frontiers website for more details.
Word Express interviews Georgian poet Zaza Koshkadze, and talks to Owen Martell and Milan Dobricic about translating and publishing Owen's novel into Serbian after meeting on the Word Express journey. All on the Travel Blog.