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Küçük İskender

Derman İskender Över, also known as Küçük İskender (28 May 1964 – 3 July 2019), was a Turkish poet, critic and actor.[2]

Küçük İskender
BornDerman İskender Över
(1964-05-28)28 May 1964
Istanbul
Died3 July 2019(2019-07-03) (aged 55)
Beykoz, Istanbul
Pen nameKüçük İskender
OccupationPoet, critic, actor
NationalityTurkish
PeriodCumhuriyet dönemi
Years active1985–2019
Notable worksGözlerim Sığmıyor Yüzüme
Notable awardsOrhon Murat Ariburnu Awards – 2000.[1]

Biography

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İskender was born on 28 May 1964 in Istanbul.[3] He graduated from Kabataş High School for Boys, then he studied in Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine and left school in his last year. Later on, he studied at Department of Sociology in Istanbul University, and left after 3 years education. He wrote poems, criticisms, and essays in various magazines starting from the 1980s until the day he died. His first poem was published in the journal Milliyet Genç Sanat, under the name İskender Över. His poems began to be published professionally in Adam Sanat magazine in 1985.

Career

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He shared the stage in Istanbul with Turkey's most important music figures like Baba Zula, Rashit, Teoman, Nejat Yavaşoğulları, Gripin, Hayko Cepkin, Zakkum, Harun Tekin, Derya Köroğlu, Mabel Matiz, Can Bonomo, model, Flört, Cemiyette Pişiyorum, also he shared the literature and cinema stages with Orhan Alkaya, Mustafa Altıoklar, Şenol Erdoğan, Pelin Batu, Haydar Ergülen, Arif Damar, Lale Müldür and Enver Ercan from the world. Küçük İskender is also accompanied by young poets such as Onur Akyıl, Gonca Özmen, Erdal Erdem, Harun Atak, Emre Varışlı, Emirhan Esenkova, Şakir Özüdogru, Sinem Sal, Zafer Çakır, especially in Beyoğlu, Ankara, İzmir, İzmit, Zonguldak, Elazığ, Gaziantep, Milas. He held performance nights in many different places such as, Seferihisar, Gumusluk, Bodrum, Bolu, Kirsehir, Nicosia.

Acting

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Küçük İskender acted on 1997's movie Ağır Roman and 2002's movie O Şimdi Asker which are directed by Mustafa Altıoklar.

Bibliography

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Awards

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Books written about

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  • Ölü evindeki çılgın eğlence Can Sever'in Küçük İskender'in şiir kitabıyla ilgili yazısı
  • Şiir Dinletileri Küçük İskender'in şiir dinletileri
  • Salih Alexander Wolter: Erinnerung an küçük iskender.[6]
  • "Küçük İskender Kitabı'nın Anlamı" Murat Esmer'in yazısı.[7]

References

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Notes

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  1. ^ "Behçet Necatigil". 6 July 2019. Archived from the original on 6 July 2019. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Son dakika haberi! Küçük İskender yaşamını yitirdi! Küçük İskender kimdir? – Son Haberler". 3 July 2019. Archived from the original on 3 July 2019. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  3. ^ Soysal, İlhami (1988). 20. yüzyıl Türk şiiri antolojisi (3rd ed.). Yenişehir, Ankara: Bilgi Yayınevi. ISBN 975-494-022-3. OCLC 22925406.
  4. ^ "Behçet Necatigil". 6 July 2019. Archived from the original on 6 July 2019. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  5. ^ "Erdal Öz Edebiyat Ödülü Küçük İskender'in! – Milliyet Haber". 14 March 2016. Archived from the original on 14 March 2016. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  6. ^ Wolter, Salih Alexander (2020). Das Sternbild des Matrosen lesen Schwules Leben – schwule Literatur. Heinz-Jürgen Voß, Psychosozial-Verlag. Gießen. ISBN 978-3-8379-3012-2. OCLC 1154193165.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. ^ Duvar, Gazete (17 December 2019). "'Küçük İskender Kitabı'nın anlamı" (in Turkish). Retrieved 25 August 2021.
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