Urkiye Mine Balman

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Urkiye Mine Balman (January 29, 1927 - April 28, 2018) 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. Balman wrote in a wide variety of genres. She is considered one of the pioneers of Cypriot women's poetry.

Life

Balman was born in Lefke in 1927.[1] She wrote her first poems in 1940. She graduated from the Cyprus Turkish Teachers' Training College in 1946 and worked in Cyprus as a primary school teacher.[2]

Balman is considered one of the pioneers of Cypriot women's poetry.

Turkish Cypriot musicians.[1][5] Balman’s only published poetry collection, "Yurduma Giden Yollar" ["The Roads that Lead to My Home"], was published in 1952.[2] She won the Leading Poet Award at the Ali Nesim Literature Awards in 2017.[3]

Balman died on 28 April 2018 in Lefkosa, at the age of 91.[4][2] She was buried next to her husband, a school inspector, who had predeceased her.

Legacy

A bronze bust of Balman was added to the Cyprus Turkish Writers Bust Collection at the Walled City Museum in 2021.[3][6]

In April 2022, four years after her death, the Near East University held a panel to commemorate her, during which a song composed by Kamran Aziz from Balman’s poem “Violin” was played on the piano.[3]

Works

References

  1. ^ a b "Urkiye Mine Balman". 'Turkish-Cypriot Literature'. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Urkiye Mine Balman, the first female poet of Cyprus, will be commemorated on the 4th anniversary of her death at a panel to be held at the Near East University on April 28". Near East University. 5 May 2022. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
  3. ^ a b c d "One of the first Cypriot female poets Urkiye Mine Balman and Fikret Demirağ, the greatest representative of abstract poetry, are at the Walled City Museum with their bronze busts". University of Kyrenia. 15 February 2021. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
  4. ^ a b Öncül, Tamer. "KIBRIS TÜRK SIIRI". University of Pennsylvania. Archived from the original on 13 September 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
  5. ^ "Urkiye Mine Balman". biyografya. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  6. ^ "Turkish Cypriot Literature and The Pioneer Women Poets". Eastern Mediterranean University. 18 January 2017. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
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