{"id":4350,"date":"2026-08-23T13:36:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T10:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/?p=4350"},"modified":"2026-08-25T00:19:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T21:19:55","slug":"metin-celal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/metin-celal\/","title":{"rendered":"Metin Cel\u00e2l (Turkey)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Metin Cel\u00e2l was born in 1961 in Ankara. He studied petroleum engineering at the Middle East Technical University and journalism at the School of Press and Publishing of Istanbul University. He served as editor-in-chief and\/or director for several literary journals and publishing houses. He founded the contemporary Turkish literature portal turksir.com. He is the coordinator of the Istanbul International Poetry Festival. He is the author of four poetry collections: Ad\u0131m \u00d6l\u00fcm (My Name Is Death, 1986), Kendi Kendini Tatmin (Pleasing Oneself, 1989), Konformist (Conformist, 1993), and K\u00fc\u00e7\u00fck Hayat Ba\u011flar\u0131 (Tiny Links to Life, 1999). His poetry has been translated into eleven languages, and books of his work have been published in English, German, and French. He has also written five novels and two books\nof literary criticism. <em>turksir.com<\/em>. Stambulo tarptautinio poezijos festivalio koordinatorius. Keturi\u0173 poezijos rinkini\u0173 autorius: <em>Ad\u0131m \u00d6l\u00fcm<\/em> (<em>Mirtis mano vardas<\/em>, 1986), <em>Kendi Kendini Tatmin <\/em>(<em>Pasitenkinti<\/em>, 1989), <em>Konformist <\/em>(<em>Konformistas<\/em>, 1993), <em>K\u00fc\u00e7\u00fck Hayat Ba\u011flar\u0131 <\/em>(<em>Ma\u017ei gyvenimo saitai<\/em>, 1999). Jo poezijos i\u0161versta \u012f 11 kalb\u0173, i\u0161leistos knygos angl\u0173, vokie\u010di\u0173, pranc\u016bz\u0173 kalbomis. Para\u0161\u0117 penkis romanus ir dvi literat\u016bros kritikos knygas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-wd-paragraph wd-d83e1968\">Photo by Kadir \u0130ncesu<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metin Cel\u00e2l gim\u0117 1961 m. Ankaroje. Studijavo naftos in\u017einerij\u0105 Vidurio Ryt\u0173 technikos universitete (Ankara) ir \u017eurnalistik\u0105 Stambulo universiteto Spaudos ir<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetai","category-poetai-2026"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4351,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350\/revisions\/4351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}