AWARDS & Recognıtıon
Deniz Dağdelen Düzgün’s work has been recognized through poetry and translation awards that trace a consistent literary path across poems, manuscripts, books, and cultural projects. These distinctions reflect a body of work shaped by memory, contradiction, language, displacement, and a sustained commitment to building bridges between poetic traditions.
Selected Distinctions
A chronological selection of poetry and translation awards marking different stages of Deniz Dağdelen Düzgün’s literary work, from individual poems and manuscripts to books, translation projects, and Franco-Turkish cultural exchange.
2025 — Ali Rıza Ertan Poetry Award
For Göçeğen (The Wanderer), a poetry manuscript shaped by displacement, memory, existential contradiction, and the search for belonging. The work was later published as a book by Hayal Yayınları.
2023 — Özkan Mert Translation Award
For his translation and cultural work through Le Dactylo Méditerranéen, particularly his contribution to bringing contemporary French poetry into Turkish and strengthening Franco-Turkish literary exchange.
2020 — Smyrna Literature Competition, Third Prize
For “Alsancak Garı’nın Ana Dili (The Mother Tongue of Alsancak Station”, a poem rooted in İzmir’s urban memory, language, history, and emotional geography.
2019 — Yaşar Kemal Poetry Award
For “Serez’in Bin Yıllık Arısı (The Millennial Bee of Serez)” a poem that later gave its title to his second collection and reflects central themes in his work: social wounds, memory, contradiction, and light.