Onur Behramoğlu
Onur Behramoğlu was born in1975 in İstanbul and studied Political Science and International Relations at Marmara University. Behramoğlu has a Master’s degree in Business Administration and worked as bank auditor, credit risk manager and finance manager both in Turkey and abroad. He works in the logistics sector.
Onur Behramoğlu has also published poems, poetry translations, essays, interviews and film reviews in several magazines such as Yasakmeyve, Varlık, Ç.N. Çeviri Edebiyatı, Sanat Cephesi, Cumhuriyet and Yeni Film. Some of his poems have been translated to English, Russian and Bulgarian. His first collection Asit ya da İksir came out in 2006. He has represented Turkish poetry at the Moscow International Poetry Festival. Behramoğlu has translated some poems of Ewa Lipska, Yehuda Amihay, Marin Sorescu and Gregory Corso. He has also contributed to six different books as co-writer. Onur Behramoğlu is a member of Pen and contributes to the ‘World Literature from A to Z’ at Solkültür, an internet portal of Turkish Communist Party. He is married and has a son. www.behramoglu.com
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.