Urkiye Mine Balman

Urkiye Mine Balman (January 29, 1927 - April 28, 2018), born in Lefke, was a Turkish Cypriot author and poet who graduated from the Cyprus Turkish Teachers' Training College in 1946 and worked as a teacher in Cyprus.[1][2]

Balman has written on a wide variety of genres, but her works are mostly romantic poems describing sometimes a lonesome village girl or country life and long-distance romances. Balman has published her works in Yeşilada, Türk Dili, and Türk'e Doğru literary magazines in Turkey.[3] Some of her poems have also been set to music by Turkish Cypriot musicians.

Works

References
  1. "Urkiye Mine Balman", Turkish-Cypriot Literature
  2. "Urkiye Mine Balman". biyografya. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  3. http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~durduran/newpage/culture/poetry/toncul/onculpaper.html
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