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Netice Yildiz

16 August 2018, 15:24

Born: Nicosia, Cyprus, 18 June 1936. Education: Educated privately and at the Turkish Lycée, Nicosia. Military Service: Royal Air Force, 1954–55. Family: Married Kristin Hughes-Stanton in 1959 (divorced 1977); one daughter. Career: Books assistant, 1956–66, book exhibition assistant, 1966–67, periodicals assistant, 1967–72, head of overseas reviews scheme, 1972–81, in design production and publishing department, 1981–82, and book promotion officer, 1983—, British Council, London. Agent: MHA Literary Agents, 62 Grafton Way, London W1P 5LD, England. Address: 2 rue de l'Eveque, 34360 Saint-Chinian, France.
He is a well known poet writing in English, Turkish and French.
His works have been published in many poetry journals and magazines.
His books and other works are as follows:
Narcissus in a Dry Pool. London, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1978.

Pregnant Shadows. London, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1981.

Selected Poems. Istanbul, Yapi Kredi, 1997.

Fox and the Cradle Makers. Montpellier, Mossy Well Press, 2000.

Novel
A Trap for the Burglar. London, Owen, 1965.

Other
Plucked in a Far-Off Land: Images in Self Biography. London, Gollancz, 1970.

Editor, with Osman Türkay, Modern Turkish Poetry. London, Modern Poetry in Translation, 1971.
Translator, Selected Poems of Nazim Hikmet. London, Cape, 1967; New York, Humanities Press, 1968.
Translator, The Moscow Symphony and Other Poems, by Nazim Hikmet. London, Rapp and Whiting, 1970; Chicago, Swallow Press, 1971.
Translator, The Day before Tomorrow, by Nazim Hikmet. Oxford, Carcanet, 1972.
Translator, The Snowy Day/Karli bir gün, by Ezra Jack Keats. London, Bodley Head, 1980.
Translator, Peter's Chair/Peter'in sandalyasi, by Ezra Jack Keats. London, Bodley Head, 1980.
Translator, Don't Go Back to Kyrenia, by Mehmet Yashin,2000.