Onur Caymaz
Onur Caymaz graduated from the Electronics-Computers
Department of the Technical Education Faculty at Marmara
University. He wrote song lyrics and worked in the theatre as
an amateur. He won the story competition held by Genclik
Bookstore in 1999.
His collection Kah ve Rengi won the Orhon Murat Ariburnu
Poetry Competition in 2000 and was later published. His
story "Nokta" ("Point") won second place in the Haldun
Taner Short Story Awards in 2002 and was later published
in the collection Ezilmis Leylaklar Kitabi (Book of Crushed
Lilacs, 2003). His novel Seni Hatirlatan Yildizlar (Stars
Reminiscent of You) and his poetry anthology Bak Hala Cok
Guzelsin (Look, You're Still Very Beautiful) were published
in 2004. Look, You're Still Very Beautiful won the BehCet
Aysan poetry competition in 2005. Also in 2005 his collection
of stories Sanki Yarin Nisan (As If Tomorrow Were April)
was published. This book won Caymaz the Naim Tirali Story
Award of the Ordu Municipality.
In 2008 his collection Kalbin ve Tenin Butun Istekleri (All
the Desires of Heart and Body) was published. He continues
to work on writing poems, novels, diaries, and stories while
working at an advertisement agency as a copy editor. Caymaz
resides in Istanbul.
e-mail the poet at onur.caymaz@grey.com.tr
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