Özdemir İnce

Özdemir İnce (born 1 September 1936) is a Turkish poet, essayist, literary critic, translator and journalist. He began publishing poetry in the mid-1950s and released his first collection, Kargı, in 1963. His early collections displayed features associated with the Second New movement, while his later poetry combined formal experimentation and dense imagery with socially engaged themes.

İnce has also translated poetry, fiction, drama and works of political thought into Turkish. Writers he has translated include Yannis Ritsos, Lautréamont, Arthur Rimbaud, René Char, Karl Marx and Milan Kundera. The French edition of his poetry collection Mani est vivant! received the Prix Max Jacob étranger in 2006. He received the PEN Turkey Poetry Award in 2010.