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He was born in Istanbul in 1979. His hometown is Bursa. He has been living in Batman for twenty years. He studied at Samsun and Istanbul Selimiye Veterinary Health Vocational High Schools as a boarding student. He graduated from Samsun 19 Mayıs University, Department of Classroom Teaching in 2000.
He started writing poetry and publishing it in magazines in 2000. He won the Rıfat Ilgaz Poetry Award in 2002 with the first file he wrote. His poems and articles appeared in the magazines: Varlık, E, Heves, Başka, Concept Karmaşa, Poetry Country, Sepya, Budala, Kuzey Yıldızı, İmlasız, Ağır Ol Bay Düzyazı, Daktilo, Ay, Akatalpa until 2004. He stopped publishing poems and articles in magazines since 2005.
His first book is 'The End' It was presented to the reader in 2009. In 2013, five of his poems were translated into English and published in "Turkish Poetry Today" under the editorship of George Messo. It was published in London by Red Hand Books in its selection. He won the İsmet Kemal Karadayı Poetry Award in 2017. In 2018, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's "Pear Tree" In the movie, the 'Source Authors' was among them.
8 novels, 12 stories, 6 poems, 4 essays and 16 children's books written by Polat Onat have been published.