Background
Akin was born in 1933 in Yozgat, Turkey.
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Gulten Akın
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She attended Beşiktaş Atatürk Anatolian High School and graduated from Ankara University Law School in 1955.
Career
Her poetry is considered to be culturally significant to Turkey. Because of her husband"s position as the governor of various provincial districts in Turkey, she moved around several provinces of Turkey, working as a lawyer, assistant lawyer and teacher in many of them. She worked for the reestablishment of free and democratic non-governmental organizations.
Akın"s first published poem appeared in the newspaper Son Haber in 1951.
She subsequently appeared in several magazines, such as Hisar, Varlık, Yeditepe, Turk Dili and Mülkiye. While her early poems were about nature, love, separation, and yearning, her later poems were dominated by social issues.
Her poems are inspired a great deal by folklore. In the compilation book of her analytical writings on poetry, Şiiri Düzde Kuşatmak ("Surrounding Poetry with Simplicity"), Akın expressed her desire to get down to the level of the general populace in her poems, saying that she wanted to "put into words and writing the already-existing essence and form that exists among the people, and while promoting the poem, promoting the improvement of the lives and lifestyles of the people." Her poems have been translated into many languages, and more than 40 of her poems have been composed into songs.
One of these songs is the 1993 "Deli Kızın Türküsü" (English: Crazy Girl"s Ballad) by Sezen Aksu, which was also the title of the album it appeared on.
Akın also authored short plays. Milliyet named her as having been the most influential Turkish poet since Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca. Büyü Yavrum:
by Grup Yorum, 1987
by Edip Akbayram and Kemal Sahir Gürel, 1988
Deli Kızın Türküsü:
by Sezen Aksu, 1993.
Achievements
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Akın has received many awards. Some of them are: 1955 - Varlık poetry contest, 1st place 1964 - Turkish Language Association poetry contest 1972 - Turkish Radio and Television Corporation Artistic Contest, Achievement Award 1976 - Yeditepe (magazine) poetry award 1991 - Halil Kocagöz Poetry Award 1992 - Sedat Simavi Literature Award 1999 - Akdeniz Golden Orange Poetry Award 2003 - Dünya (newspaper) Book of the Year Award 2008 - Erdal Öz Literature Award.
Membership
In 1972, Akın and her family settled in Ankara, where she worked at the Turkish Language Association, the regulatory body of the Turkish language, and became a member of the Editorial Team at the Ministry of Culture.
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Born
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Nationality
Turkish
Awards
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Golden Orange; Sedat Simavi Literature Award; Artistic Contest; Kocagöz Poetry Award Akın has received many awards; some of them are: 1955 - Varlık poetry contest, 1st place 1964 - Turkish Language Association poetry contest 1972 - Turkish Radio and Television Corporation Artistic Contest, Achievement Award 1976 - Yeditepe (magazine) poetry award 1991 - Halil Kocagöz Poetry Award 1992 - Sedat Simavi Literature Award 1999 - Akdeniz Golden Orange Poetry Award 2003 - Dünya (newspaper) Book of the Year Award 2008 - Erdal Öz Literature Award The Sedat Simavi Literature Prize is a Turkish literary award presented annually.Golden Orange; Sedat Simavi Literature Award; Artistic Contest; Kocagöz Poetry Award Akın has received many awards; some of them are: 1955 - Varlık poetry contest, 1st place 1964 - Turkish Language Association poetry contest 1972 - Turkish Radio and Television Corporation Artistic Contest, Achievement Award 1976 - Yeditepe (magazine) poetry award 1991 - Halil Kocagöz Poetry Award 1992 - Sedat Simavi Literature Award 1999 - Akdeniz Golden Orange Poetry Award 2003 - Dünya (newspaper) Book of the Year Award 2008 - Erdal Öz Literature Award The Sedat Simavi Literature Prize is a Turkish literary award presented annually.