The Cem Taylan Award is a monetary prize granted to one outstanding student from each of the freshman, sophomore, and junior classes who have demonstrated exceptional academic achievement. Recipients are selected by the departmental faculty at the end of each academic year, during the month of June.

 CEM TAYLAN (1946-2001)

BA in English Literature, Istanbul University (1972)

MA University of Keele (1974)

PhD University of Keele (1978).

Dissertation title:  "D. H. Lawrence’s Responses to Visual Arts and Theories of Art and Their Effect on his Earlier Fiction"

Cem Taylan joined the BU, Department of Western Languages and Literatures in 1979 and taught courses on Modern English Poetry, Victorian Poetry and Prose, Modern American Poetry, Analysis of Poetry, Classical American Novel, Modern American Theatre, Translation, Novel Adaptations in Cinema and History of the Turkish Cinema.  His research  predominantly  on modern English, American and Turkish poetry, modern English novelists, cinema as a medium of literary work, Turkish cinema, etc. appeared in literary as well as popular journals and daily newspapers.

His published books are:

1986. D.H. Lawrence, Oğullar ve Sevgililer (trans.).E Yayınları.

1999. Oğullar ve Sevgililer (reprint).  Oğlak Yayınları

1992. Modern İngiliz Şiiri: Willian Butlar Yeats ve Ezra Pound. Korsan Yayınları.

2000. Igor Stravinsky, Müziğin Poetikası (trans.). Pan Yayıncılık.

2000. Darwin Kuramı Seçme Yazılar ve Eleştiriler (trans.). Pan Yayıncılık.

2002. Dil Bilimi Düşününde Dönüm Noktaları I: Socrates’ten Saussure’e Batı Geleneği

(Landmarks in Linguistic Thought) (trans. with E. Taylan)Ankara: TDK Yayınları 799

Recipients of the 2024–2025 Cem Taylan Award

We congratulate the students who have won the award:

Brianne Ann BOYLE (Freshman)

Büşranur TURGUT (Sophomore)

Ayris ÜNAL (Junior)