Şeref Taşlıova, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Turkish storyteller
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Place of Birth: Çıldır, Turkey
About Şeref Taşlıova
- Serafettin Tasliova (1938 – 20 September 2014) was a Turkish storyteller in the asik bardic tradition.Tasliova won many prizes at bardic contests for improvised poetry and storytelling; many at international level.
- He had also been awarded by UNESCO.
- He started writing poetry around the age of ten and was widely recognised for his ability to tell epic tales, being one of the most prominent figures in the northeastern Anatolian tradition of minstrelsy, He was a prolific published author of poetry, and has also recorded many albums of his poetry and bardic stories. Tasliova also had a long career in broadcasting.
- He made appearances on a number of Turkish television stations, and had been making a regular radio broadcast since 1966.
- He also appeared in the Michael Wood BBC documentaries In Search of the Trojan War (1985) and In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great (1997), in which he demonstrates the oral traditions of the storyteller.
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