İbrahim Abdülkadir Meriçboyu

İbrahim Abdülkadir Meriçboyu (or A. Kadir ) (* 1917 in Istanbul ; † March 1, 1985 ibid) was a Turkish poet and translator.

Life

Meriçboyu graduated from Eyüp Middle School (1933) and Kuleli Military School (1936). In 1938, when he was in the final grade of the military academy, he was arrested with Nazim Hikmet after Hikmet's poems had been found in Meriçboyu's personal closet by the school administration. Hikmet was sentenced to a 15-year-old and Meriçboyu to a ten-month prison term and was released from the military academy. He was in the same prison with Nazim Hikmet, whose poems had profoundly influenced Meriçboyu. After his release, he did his military service as a rank-and-file soldier. In 1941 he began studying law at Istanbul University .

In 1943 he published his first book of poems “Tebliğ” ( The Communication ), which was banned by the government, which practically supported the National Socialists. Meriçboyu was exiled to Anatolia and spent his exile time in various cities such as Muğla , Balıkesir , Konya , Kırşehir and Adana . In 1947 he returned to Istanbul and found a job in a biscuit factory. He then worked as an editor and translator for various publishing houses. From 1965 he published his books himself.

The main themes of his first book, such as homeland love, the life of the working class or opposition to war, he repeated in his other poems, which were published in various magazines after his exile. In 1955 he wrote along with Abdülbaki Gölpınarlı the poems of Jalal ad-Din ar-Rumi and 1958 Azra Erhat the Iliad of Homer by. In 1959 he published his second book "Hoş Geldin Halil İbrahim" ( Welcome Halil Ibrahim ), which was stylistically similar to the first book. His third book "Dört Pencere" ( Four Windows ) was published in 1962 and his fourth book "Mutlu Olmak Varken" ( Instead of being happy ... ), which included all of his poetry, was published in 1968. At the same time he published the adaptations of the poems by Omar Chayyām (1964), Bertolt Brecht , Paul Éluard (1961, with Asım Bezirci) and Tevfik Fikret (1967) as well as Homer's Odyssey (1970, with Azra Erhat). He has his memories of his and Nazim Hikmet's captivity in 1966 in his book "1938 Harb Okulu Olayı ve Nâzım Hikmet" ( The Military Academy Affair 1938 and Nazim Hikmet ) and his travel reports about the Soviet Union in "Sovyet Rusya'da On Beş Gün" (1978, Fifteen days in Soviet Russia ). Between 1973 and 1980 he prepared a three-volume anthology (Dünya Halk ve Demokrasi Şiirleri - People's and Democracy Poems of the World ), which consists of adaptations of poems by poets from the Third World. He died in Istanbul in 1985.

List of his books

Poems

• (1959) Hoşgeldin Halil İbrahim. Istanbul.
• (1962) Dört Pencere. Istanbul.
• (1968) Mutlu Olmak Varken. Istanbul.

memoirs

• (1966) 1938 Harp Okulu Olayı ve Nazım Hikmet. Istanbul.
• (1978) Sovyet Rusya'da On Beş Gün. Istanbul.

Re-seals

• Mevlana (1955) Bugünün Diliyle Mevlana. Istanbul. (With Abdülbaki Gölpınarlı )
• Homeros (1958) Ilyada. Ankara: Türkiye İş Bankası. (With Azra Erhat )
• Paul Eluard (1960) Asıl Adalet. Istanbul.
• Paul Eluard (1961) Seçme Şiirler. Istanbul. (With Asım Bezirci )
• Ömer Hayyam (1964) Bugünün Diliyle Hayyam. Istanbul.
• Tevfik Fikret (1965) Eski Çağlar Tarihi. Istanbul.
• Tevfik Fikret (1967) Bugünün Diliyle Tevfik Fikret. Istanbul.
• Homeros (1970) Odysseia. Istanbul: Sander. (With Azra Erhat)
• Anthology (1973) Vietnam Şiiri. Istanbul. (With Afşar Timuçin )
• Anthology (1975) Portekiz Sömürgeleri Şiiri. Istanbul (With Afşar Timuçin)
• Bertolt Brecht (1979) Makinelerin Türküsü. Istanbul: Ağaoğlu. (With Bülent Fındıklı)
• Bertolt Brecht (1978) Halkın Ekmeği. Istanbul. (With Asım Bezirci)
• Bertolt Brecht (1980) Karanlık Zamanlar. Istanbul: Sanat Emeği. (With Bülent Fındıklı)
• Anthology (1983) Filist Şiiri. Istanbul: Yazko. (With Afşar Timuçin and Süleyman Salam)

Web links

• Poems by A. Kadir (Turkish)