Şükrü Erbaş

Şükrü Erbaş was born in 1953 in Yozgat, Turkey. Educated in Ankara, he is the author of over thirty books, including twenty volumes of poetry. His first poems were published in Varlık in 1978 and have garnered his nation’s most eminent literary awards, including prizes named for the Turkish poets Behçet Necatigil and Ceyhun Atuf Kansu, as well as the Golden Orange Award for Bağbozumu Şarkıları [Songs of the Vineyard Harvest], in which these poems appear. Translations of his work have appeared in Asymptote, Tupelo Quarterly, The Antonym, Translation Attached, and Poetry International.

Erbaş spent more than twenty-five years as a civil servant for a branch of the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture. He now lives in Antalya, on the southern coast.