Ferit Edgu  (b. 1936) lived for six years in Paris, where he studied ceramics. For many years he worked as a copywriter and later ran a publishing house. The absurdity of life, sexual obsessions, deterioration and estrangement of the intellectual are among his main themes. His short story collections include Av (Hunting / 1968), Bir Gemide (On Shipboard—winner of the 1979 Sait Faik Short Story Award) and  Dogu Oykuleri (Eastern Tales / 1996). Edgu's Ders Notlari  (Class Notes) won the 1979 Turkish Language Association Essay Award. Eylulun Golgesinde Bir Yazdi (It Was a Summer in the Shadow of September) was the co-winner of the 1988 Sedat Simavi Literaure Award. Seyir Sozcukleri (Words for a Voyage / 1996) and Dag Siirleri (Mountain Poems / 1999) are his major poetry collections.

Works in this website:
 from TALES FROM THE EAST short story/fairy tale
from TURKEY: A PORTRAIT narrative/memoir
THREE FALLS (ADREAM) short story/fairy tale
IMAGE poetry 1999
ON THIS ROAD poetry 1999
NORTH STAR poetry 1999
BEFORE THE MOUNTAIN BEYOND THE MOUNTAIN poetry 1999
 





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