Erkut Tokman

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Photo by Mahir Karayazı

Turkish poet, translator, and visual/performance artist Erkut Tokman is a member of the Poetry Society and Exiled Writers Ink as well as both Turkish and Italian PEN. He is the author of five verse collections and has recent poems in New Humanist and Poetry Buenos Aires. He won the Italian Ministry of Culture Translation and Quasimodo Jaci Poetry awards.

Literary Istanbul

March 2023
Buket Uzuner, Erkut Tokman, Matt A. Hanson
We asked writers in Turkey two questions: What is the book, available in English, that best evokes Istanbul? What is a favorite Istanbul bookstore? Here are their answers. A City of…
Writing as Judgment or Scream: A Conversation with Aslı Erdoğan

November 2017
Erkut Tokman
Photo by Mateusz Skwarczek After finishing a master’s degree in physics and writing her thesis on the Higgs-Boson particle, Turkish writer Aslı Erdoğan (b. 1967, Istanbul) work…
“If We Change the World We Also Change Its Meaning”: An Interview with Syrian Poet Adonis

November 2015
Erkut Tokman
Adonis (Ali Ahmad Said Esber), born in Syria in 1930, is considered the most influential living Arab poet of our times. Due to his opposition to the political regime at the time, he fled to Beirut in…