Recep Küpçü

Recep Küpçü ( Bulgarian Реджеб Кюпчю ; born September 28, 1934 in Kuklen near Plovdiv in Bulgaria ; † April 26, 1976 in Varna ) was a Bulgarian poet, writer and journalist of Turkish descent. His works are among the standard works of Turkish prose and have been translated into several languages.

Since 1956 Küpçü lived and worked in the Bulgarian port city of Burgas . There he worked as a construction worker, journalist for the newspaper "Nowa swetlina" (Bulgarian) and as an employee in the city's cultural office. In Burgas the writers Christo Fotew , Ilija Burschew and Nedjalko Jordanow were among his circle of friends. Under the editorship of Jordanow, the First Book of Küpçü was published. Jordanov also translated some of his works into Bulgarian. Küpçü himself wrote in Bulgarian and Turkish. His family now lives in Istanbul .

In 2001 Küpçü was posthumously honored with honorary citizenship of the city of Burgas , whose poetry prize he had also received.

Poems

One of Küpçü's most famous poems is entitled Bulgaria! I am your son and mine are your ways (from the Bulgarian "Българийо! Аз съм твой син и мои са твоите пътища"):

Bulgarian: Аз не съм чужденец, аз съм твой син… Българийо, аз съм твой син и мои са твоите пътища

German translation: I am not a stranger, I am your son ... Bulgaria, I am your son and mine are your ways.

Works

• Въпросите продължават (1962) (Questions continue)
• Животът е сън (1965) (Life is a [night] dream)
• Приятели мои, да тръгнем (1967) (my friends, let's go)
• Şiirler. Boğaziçi Yayınları, Istanbul 1994, ISBN 975-451-111-X .

literature

• Ivan Karajotow , Stojan Rajtschewski, Mitko Ivanov: История на Бургас. От древността до средата на ХХ век (German history of the city of Burgas. From antiquity to the middle of the 20th century ). Verlag Tafprint OOD, Plovdiv, 2011, ISBN 978-954-92689-1-1 , p. 274.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.mediapool.bg/show/?storyid=149481