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Yekta

Yekta is a French poet and musician. He has published four poetry books and has participated in several international festivals: in Charleville-Mézières (2009, 2010), Namur (2010), Antwerp (2016), Genova (2016), Ledbury (2017), Ptuj (2017), Umeå (2018) and Struga (2018). His poems have been translated into English, Croatian, Spanish, Flemish, Italian, Macedonian, Slovenian and Swedish. As a musician, performer, narrator and singer, he collaborates with several poetry-related projects and with different musicians. He has composed the soundtrack of the video poems ‘Statue (2015) and The Way of Dreams (2016), and released his first piano E.P. which accompanied the book Le mangeur de reflets (2016).
Year: 2019