NURDURAN DUMAN

Nurduran Duman wrote her first poem at the age of 8.  In 9, she promised herself to be a writer when she has grown up.  She has adored poetry and become a poetess. Because of her passion about the sea, she studied at the Istanbul Technical University’s Ship Building and Marine Sciences Department, and she graduated from there as an engineer for ‘Naval Architecture’ and ‘Ocean Engineering’. She feels she has connected herself with a strong passion for Istanbul. Likewise she senses her historical responsibility for Çanakkale (Gallipoli). Her poems have been translated and published in English, Finnish, Serbian, Bulgarian and Slovak languages. She attended numerous national and international events in a capacity of a poetess, writer and translator. She did study poets including Anne Sexton, Sara Teasdale, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sylvia Plath, Victor Hernandez Cruz, and published writings about them and translated their poems. Her poems, translations of poems and stories as well as her articles appeared in many magazines and newspapers. Her poetry file entitled ‘Yenilgi Oyunu – The Game of the Defeat’ has been honored by the 2005 Cemal Süreyya Poetry Prizes Jury Special Award’. She has been producing and presenting a literature programme called ‘Yazın Küresi – Sphere of Literature’ and a children literature programme named ‘Kitap Hazinesi – Treasure of the Book’ on radio and television.

Her Books:

Yenilgi Oyunu (The Game of the Defeat) (Poetry Collection, 2006, Istanbul; Komşu Publishing, Yasakmeyve Books)

İstanbul’la Bakışmak Salacak (To Make Eyes With Istanbul, Salacak (Narration, 2010, Heyamola Publishing)

Books She Translated:

Jin-shei Kız Kardeşlik Sırları (Secrets of Jin-shei Sisterhood) (2006, İstanbul, Writer: Alma Alexander, Literatür Publishing)