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Neslihan Yalman
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Neslihan Yalman (born 1982, Ankara, Turkey) lives in Izmir, where she teaches literature and poetry. She publishes poems regularly on the website “Haber3” and in literary magazines. Yalman is one of the few women poets in Turkey who confronts feminine taboo topics and foregrounds the feminine and masculine characteristics of the Turkish language. At the centre of her poems are female sexuality and eroticism, nudity and uncovering, abortion and fertility; they bear elements of shamanism.
Alongside her literary work, Yalman showed her artistic diversity with the film “10. Köy: Teyatora”. For her play “Yaşama Dokuna(maya)nlar Çadırı” she received the 2004 theatre prize “Suat Taşer Kısa Oyun Ödülü”.
Yalman studied Sociology at the Akdeniz University in Antalya, and Fine Arts at the Dokuz Eylül University in Izmir. She completed her second degree in dramatic and creative writing for the stage. Additionally she has completed studies at Gazi University in Ankara in ethnology and folk art.
Publications
İncinme Halleri (Situation of Injuries), Kanguru Yayınları 2013
Am'a'erkil, Şiirden Yayıncılık 2014