Poet, author, journalist, and translator Roni Margulies, lost his life at the age of 68. His father an Ashkenazi Jew, and his mother a Sephardic Jew, Margulies was a long-standing member of the Revolutionary Socialist Workers' Party (DSİP). He was receiving cancer treatment.
Margulies was born in İstanbul on May 5, 1955. He went to primary and secondary schools in Şişli Terakki and High School in İstanbul and then graduated from Robert College.
He studied at different universities in the UK and became both an associate professor of economics and a Marxist. He lived in London for a period and in Turkey later.
His first poetry book was published in 1991. He has many books, most of them poetry, but also some translations, literature, and some on politics and history.
His last book, ""Türk'ün Hizmetçisi - Türkiye'de Azınlık Olmak" (Server of the Turk - Being a Minority in Turkey) was published in 2020.
With his articles published in many magazines and newspapers, he also wrote a column in the Taraf newspaper between 2009-2013.
He translated poems by Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, and Yehuda Amihay into Turkish.
Works
Roni Margulies won the 2002 Yunus Nadi Poetry Award with his book called "Time Difference" (Saat Farkı).
Some of his published books are the following: "Her Rind Bilir" (Herr Rind Knows) (Remzi Publishing House, 1991), "Gün Ortasında" (In the Middle of the Day) (Korsan Publishing House, 1992), "Mağrur Olma Padişahım" (Do not suffer my Sultan) (YKY Publishing House, 1994), "Bilirim Niye Yanık Öter Ney" (I know why the reed flute plays touching) (YKY, 1996), "Uzaklıklar" (Distances) (Adam Publishing House, 2000), "Elsa" (Adam Publishing House, 2000), "Saat Farkı" (Time Difference) (Adam Publishing House, 2002), "TK 1980" (YKY, 2006), "Apollo Yılları" (Apollo Years) (YKY, 2010), "Şiir, Yahudilik Vesaire" (Poetry, Jewishness, etc.) (Kanat Publishing House, 2004), "Bugün Pazar, Yahudiler Azar" (Today is Sunday, the Jews get wild) (Kanat Publishing House, 2006), "Larda Yüzen Al Sancak" (The Red Flag that waves in ...) (Kanat Publishing House, 2007), "Kalpsiz Dünyanın Kalbi" (The heart of a heartless world) (Kanat Publishing House, 2009), "Ayrıca, Gülümser Çocukluğum Ardımdan" (Besides, smiles my childhood from behind me) (Adam Publishing House, 2000), "Manastır'da İlân-ı Hürriyet - 1908-1909 Fotoğrafçı Manakis Kardeşler" (Declaration of Liberty at the Monastery - 1908-1909 Photographer Manakis Brothers) (YKY Publishing House, 1997).
Margulies saw his poetry as, "the merging of passion with fear, of excitement with concern."
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RONI MARGULIES
poet journalist writer Socialist Istanbul minority anti-war translator Doctor of economics
I was born and raised in Istanbul, my mother tongue is Turkish, Istanbul is the place where I feel at home, I cannot feel like a foreigner here, but I know that I am always seen as a foreigner. * Roni MarguliesHe was born in 1955 in Istanbul.
• After graduating from Robert College, he studied at various universities in England and did not study economics, although he became a doctor of economics. • He has been living in England since he left Istanbul in 1972.His first poetry book was published in 1991.
• Afterwards, he wrote five poetry books, childhood memories, four translated poetry books, political translations and numerous magazine and newspaper articles on literature, politics and history.
• He won the 2002 Yunus Nadi Poetry Award with his poetry book, Saat Difference.
I do not attach any special importance to the category we call intellectuals. After all, intellectuals in Turkey, as in the rest of the world, are people who have to earn money, have to live, buy food and pay rent. I don't think they have any special significance or place. I think it is not the intellectuals who will change the society, but the broad masses of the people who will change the society.** Roni MarguliesWhile Margulies examines the feelings of people with a minority identity in Turkey with a solid, objective view that she limits to her own experiences, she humorously reveals the events that we have become accustomed to in the flow of daily life. **
• The poet Margulies also writes in the fields of history and politics.I make no distinction between people; I believe in equality without exception; I am totally against nationalism and racism and I am proud of it. I believe everyone should be like this. Sometimes I ask, "How can you criticize Israel?" there are those who ask. Very easy! I don't look at the world through the eyes of a certain race, religion or nation, I try to look at it as a human being. Just because the wrongdoers share the same origin as me, that wrong is not right.* Roni Margulies
Bibliography *Arman, A. (2007, April 28). Today is Sunday the Jews are scolded. Liberty. [ Retrieved from http://hurarsiv.hurriyet.com.tr/goster/haber.aspx?id=6412949&yazarid=12 on 6 July 2009. ] ** Savaş, Y. (Director). (2008). Bookstore [Television broadcast ]. Istanbul: Mehtap TV.