Oğuz Tansel

His early poems employing rhyme and rhythm were published in the periodicals Servetifünun and Varlık and his first article appeared in Halk Bilgisi Haberleri (1937).

He made the highest contribution of over forty types of Turkish folk tales, to the Typen Türkischer Volksmarchen catalog prepared by professors Pertev Naili Boratav and Wolfram Eberhard.

He was the first author to receive the Children’s Literature Award in 1977 given by the Turkish Linguistics Society for his two volume collection of folk tale books titled “Al’lı ile Fırfırı”.

Tansel, Oğuz (2012) Masal Dünyası-World of Tales (İngilizce-Türkçe Seçme Şiirler / English- Turkish Selected Poems), Ankara: Elips Kitap.

Tansel, Oğuz (2017) Gökdeniz-Das Meer am Himmel (Almanca-Türkçe Seçme Şiirler / Ausgewahlte Gedichte auf Deutch und Türkisch), Wassenberg, Almanya: Schulbuchverlag Anadolu.

Tansel, Oğuz (with M. Eloğlu) (2020) Dervish Bektashi Gems (Illustrations: Abidin Dino) (Bektaşi Dedikleri kitabı İngilizce) Istanbul: Libra Kitap.

Tansel, Oğuz (1976) Al’lı ile Fırfırı, 2 Cilt, (1977 Türk Dil Kurumu ödülü aldı), İstanbul: Yaz yayınları, (2009, 2012, 2014, 2016) Ankara: Elips Kitap.

Tansel, Oğuz (2018) Al’lı ile Fırfırı (Rusça’ya Çeviren: Anastasia M. Zherdeva) Kırım: Tarpan Yayınevi.

Atlı, Ferda (2020) Şiirin Mavi Dili, Ankara: Sonçağ Akademi Yayınları.. Oğuz Tansel was the first to receive the Children’s Literature Award given by the Turkish Linguistics Society in 1977.