Lale Müldür

Born in Aydın in 1956, Lale Zehra Müldür is the daughter of embroidery teacher Müzeyyen Hanım and Yıldız Technical University Mathematics Department faculty member Kemal Bey. He moved to Istanbul with his family when he was five years old and completed his primary education at Teşvikiye Nilüfer Hatun Primary School.

Graduating from the American College for Girls in 1972 and then from Robert College in 1975, she experienced a learning environment where different cultures came together at a young age.

Müldür, who spent a semester in Florence on a poetry scholarship before university, continued his education in the Electronics and Economics departments at Middle East Technical University after returning to Turkey. In 1977, the poet turned to the United Kingdom and received a bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Manchester and then a master's degree in Sociology of Literature from the University of Essex.

Müldür, who married Belgian painter Patrick Jacquart in 1983, lived in Brussels for three years; He gained a unique place in Turkish poetry by continuing his literary production during this period. After returning to Turkey in 1986, he admitted that he experienced a manic-depressive mood in an interview in 2002, and in 2020, he introduced his painting works to the art world with his exhibition called "Milat" in Istanbul; The name of the exhibition comes from Milat, the first poem of his book "It Was Dangerous, I Knew It", published in 2019.

Lale Müldür is known for her poems shaped by post-modern narrative techniques, intense metaphorical language and interdisciplinary references; He develops a multi-layered style that draws from various fields such as mythology, philosophy, science, religion and popular culture. The poet, who published his first poems in the magazines "Yazı" and "Yeni İnsan" in the 1980s, continued his works in many magazines such as "Gösteri", "Defter", "Şiir Atı", "Oluşum", "Mor Köpük", "Yönelişler" and "Sombahar".

Some of his poems met with music; Yeni Türkü's compositions "Destina" and Serdar Ateşer's "La Luna" are among these examples. His first poetry book, "Distant Storm", was published in 1988 and the work, consisting of seven chapters, was accepted as the first book with post-modern features in Turkish poetry. The second book was prepared jointly with Ahmet Güntan.