DENİZ DAĞDELEN dÜZGÜN
Turkish poet, translator, editor, and engineer based in the Netherlands, Deniz Dağdelen Düzgün writes between İzmir, Paris, the Mediterranean, and the Netherlands. His poetry explores memory, exile, urban consciousness, language, and the fragile architecture of belonging.
He is the author of Mavi Çelişki, Serez’in Bin Yıllık Arısı, and Göçeğen. He received the Yaşar Kemal Poetry Award, the Özkan Mert Translation Award, the Smyrna Literature Competition Third Prize, and the Ali Rıza Ertan Poetry Award. His poems, essays, translations, and interviews have appeared in Turkey, France, and the United States, including Words Without Borders, The Banyan Review, Mediapart, Recours au Poème, Hayal, and several French literary journals and anthologies.
He is the founder of Le Dactylo Méditerranéen, a Franco-Turkish literary platform devoted to contemporary poetry, translation, and Mediterranean cultural exchange. He also organizes literary events and serves as a board member of the Balad Poetry Foundation in the Netherlands. Alongside his literary work, his engineering background informs his attention to structure, pressure, materiality, and the hidden mechanics of memory.
