Murat Nemet-Nejat
Born of Persian Jewish parents in Istanbul in 1940, Murat Nemet-Nejat came to the United States in 1959. He is a graduate of Robert College (Bogaziçi University), Amherst College and Columbia University. Murat Nemet-Nejat's writing includes poetry written in English as well as translations of modern Turkish poetry and essays on language, poetic process and photography. His work includes Frederic Brenner's Diaspora: homelands in exile (HarperCollins, 2003); The Peripheral Space of Photography (Green Integer, 2003); a translation of Ece Ayhan's A Blind Cat Black and Orthodoxies (Sun & Moon, 1997); Io's Song; Questions of Accent (The Exquisite Corpse, 1995); and translation of Orhan Veli's poetry entitled I, Orhan Veli (Hanging Loose Press, 1989).