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Nederlands vertaling: Emel Kiliç

Emel Kiliç

EEN NIEUWJAARSPAAL OPRICHTEN

Lente gedrenkt in de grond

De grond omwoelen

Het oude jaar daar gevonden

YENİ YIL DİREĞİNİN DİKİLMESİ

Bahar toprağa gömülmüştü

Toprağı kazıp

Eski yılı orada buldum

(Emel Kılıç'ın Türkçe versiyonu)

ERECTING A NEW YEAR POLE

Spring soaked in the soil

Digging the soil down

Found the old year there

(Trans. from Vietnamese into English by Pornpen Hantrakool)

About Emel Kiliç

She was born in Istanbul in 1984, finished master studies about adult education at the Free University of Brussels and early childhood education at the Marmara University. During and after her studies, she worked as an education journalist, editor and as a pre-school teacher. Furthermore, she presented radio programs about higher education and about children and their families. She wrote articles about education in Bianet, Cumhuriyet Daily Newspaper and Binfikir… (2005-2016). She wrote a children’s book called ‘Lastik Cocuk’ (Elastic Child) and a poem’s book called ‘çay, kahve ve delilik üzerine’ (about thee, coffee and madness). At the age of 26, she went to live in Belgium, learned Dutch and studied social and cultural adult education at the VUB in Brussels. She went through the entire Belgian integration process and because of her interest about integration and the multicultural society, she wrote her master thesis about highly educated migrants in the adult education and their integration process in Flanders. On top of the above, she was a member of the VLOR between 2012-2017 (The Flemish Education Council) and she was a volunteer for some projects about education. Emel continues writing, continues her research in a PHD and maintains a forum she created for highly educated migrants, to empower and enlarge their social network.