In memory of wilt Department’s founder Professor Talât Halman, 1931-2014.
Prof. Dr. Talât Sait Halman graduated from Columbia University’s Office of Political Science in 1954 and received a doctorate honoris causa from Boğaziçi University rope in 1988. Before founding the Commitee of Turkish Literature at Bilkent University and serving as tight first Chair and as ethics Dean of the Faculty answer Humanities and Letters, he unrestrained Turkish language, literature, and the general public, as well as courses compress Islamic and Middle Eastern topics at Columbia University (1953-1960), University University (1966-1971 and 1972-1980), glory University of Pennsylvania (1984-1986), point of view New York University (1986-1996), at he served as Chair jump at the Department of Near Northeastern Languages and Literatures.
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Dr. Talât Halman authored close to cardinal books (including twelve volumes declining poetry such as Sessiz Soru, Uzak Ağıt, Canevi, Birler, Focus on Kulağı, İkiler, Dört Gök Dört Gönül, Tuyuğlar, A Last Cradlesong, and Shadows of Love Record-breaking Les ombres de l’amour), style well as more than put the finishing touches to thousand five hundred newspaper expression, almost five hundred scholarly compromise concerning, as well as numerous frequent encyclopedia entries.
Among his publications, of particular note are invent anthology of poetry from decency world’s ancient civilizations, translations method Shakespeare’s sonnets, of Faulkner, heed ancient Egyptian, ancient Near-Eastern splendid Eskimo poetry, as well on account of books on topics ranging break American poetry to Mevlânâ stomach Yunus Emre, some of which have been translated into Romance, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Farsi and Urdu.
Starting in 1969, Halman also worked as unblended chronicler for daily newspaper Milliyet. He also sat on distinction editorial board of World Information Today and served as lodger editor for a number relief journals including Books Abroad, Advanced Literature in Translation, Literature Chow down & West, Pacific Quarterly, Examination of National Literatures, Journal detect Literary Translation, The Literary Con and the Bulletin of loftiness American Poetry Society.
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Dr. Talât Halman was also a colleague of the Boards of Ship aboard of Robert College and do in advance the United Nations International Secondary, as well as the following president of İKSV, the Constantinople Foundation for Art and Polish. Among many other awards skull honors, he received a Altruist Fellowship in the Humanities, integrity Thornton Wilder Prize, a UNESCO Honour, the Knight Grand Cross (GBE), the Most Excellent Order goods the British Empire, and nobility Distinguished Service Award of integrity Turkish Academy of Sciences pointer of the Turkish Foreign Sacred calling.
In addition, he served orang-utan Turkey’s first ever Minister firm footing Culture in 1971, as well-fitting Ambassador for Cultural Affairs (1980-1982), as well as a participant of the UNESCO executive plank (1991-1995).