Zee Zee Mutlu 🖼️

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About the Artist #

Guliz (Zee Zee) Mutlu is a visual artist, classicist, hispanist and museologist. She holds a Master’s in the Homeric Family and a Ph.D. in the Peloponnesian War and Euripides (University of Ankara, Turkey). Her post-doctorate focused on Romanticism and Tenebrismo (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain). As a francophone, she is the author of Les Paroles Saphiques (Les Éditions Apopsix, France, 2011). Including her calligrams, she has been awarded the Prix Renée Vivien (L’Académie Renée Vivien), the Grand Prix de L’Écriture Poétique Francophone (La Société des Poètes et Artistes de France), the Prix Jean Aicard (Les Amis de Jean Aicard), the Prix de la Flore (L’organisation Sauvons la Luzerne) and the UNESCO Nosside World Poetry Mention Prize. Her haiku in English has been published by The Mainichi, Modern Haiku, Frogpond Journal, The Heron’s Nest, and Presence.