Mehmet Yaşın

Mehmet Yaşın (born 1958) is a Turkish Cypriot poet and author.

Biography Mehmet Yaşın was born in the Yenişehir neighborhood of Nicosia to Turkish-Cypriot parents. His father is the accomplished poet and author Özker Yaşın, and his sister the well-known poet Neşe Yaşın.

He left Cyprus at the age of 17, and went to study in Turkey, where he studied at the Ankara University and Istanbul University. He received postgraduate education at the University of Birmingham and University of Middlesex, and was also educated in France and the United States. He speaks Turkish, English and Greek. He published his first novel, Your Kinsman Pisces, in 1994. He published the book An Anthology of Cypriot Poetry, where he translated Cypriot poems from the Phoenician and Lusignan eras for the first time, with the aid of historians and archaeologists. The book received the Memet Fuat Criticism/Inquisition Award.

His works have been translated to more than 20 languages and have been set to music in Cyprus, Turkey, the UK and the Netherlands.