Cemal Süreya

Cemal Süreya, known by his given name as Cemalettin Seber, was a Kurdish-Zaza, Alevi poet, writer, and translator. He was one of the pioneering poets of the İkinci Yeni movement, a modernist movement in Turkish poetry. Although he made his first attempts at poetry with sketches in middle school and aruz in high school, his true poetic work began during his university years. In addition to his poetry collections; Üvercinka (1958), Göçebe (1965), Beni Öp Sonra Doğur Beni (1973), Uçurumda Açan (1984), Sıcak Nal (1988), Güz Bitigi (1988), and Sevda Sözleri (1990); he also wrote essays, critiques, diaries, and anthologies.