Efe Murad

Efe Murad is a Turkish poet, translator and historian.

Efe Murad studied philosophy at Princeton University and completed his PhD in Ottoman History and Arabic Philosophy at Harvard University. Together with Cem Kurtuluş, he wrote the Matter-Poetry Manifesto in 2004. He has published five books of poetry and five books of translations from the Iranian poets Mahmoud Mosharraf Azad Tehrani and Fereydoon Moshiri and from the American poets C. K. Williams, Susan Howe, and Lyn Hejinian in Turkish. A recipient of "Meral Divitçi Prize for Turkish Poetry in Translation" together with Sidney Wade, he prepared a selection from the œuvre of Turkish poet Melih Cevdet Anday under the title "Silent Stones" (Talisman Press, 2017). His poems, writings and translations in English have appeared in a wide range of journals including "The American Reader", "Five Points", "Denver Quarterly", "Guernica", "Critical Flame", "Turkish Poetry Today", "Poet Lore", "Asymptote", "Jacket", and "Two Lines", and exhibitions including the 13th Istanbul Biennial. He is currently working on the complete Turkish translations of Ezra Pound’s "Cantos".