Urkiye Mine Balman
Urkiye Mine Balman (January 29, 1927 - April 28, 2018), born in Lefke, was a Turkish Cypriot author and poet who graduated from the Cyprus Turkish Teachers' Training College in 1946 and worked as a teacher in Cyprus.[1][2]
Balman has written on a wide variety of genres, but her works are mostly romantic poems describing sometimes a lonesome village girl or country life and long-distance romances. Balman has published her works in Yeşilada, Türk Dili, and Türk'e Doğru literary magazines in Turkey.[3] Some of her poems have also been set to music by Turkish Cypriot musicians.
Works
[edit]- "Urkiye Mine Balman", Sevgisiir
- "Köy Düğünü" (Village Wedding) Gulum.net
- Yurduma Giden Yollar ("The Roads that Lead to My Home") 1952
- Kibris Turk Yazininin Ilk Kadin Sairlerinden URKIYE MINE BALMAN 2003
References
[edit]- ^ "Urkiye Mine Balman", Turkish-Cypriot Literature
- ^ "Urkiye Mine Balman". biyografya. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
- ^ "Tamer Öncül: KIBRIS TÜRK SIIRI".
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