Ender Başkan

Ender Başkan is a Melbourne-based poet, novelist, small-press publisher and bookseller. The winner of the 2021 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize, his poems have been published in HEAT, Meanjin, Cordite, Unusual Work and Best of Australian Poems. He has also published a novel, A Portrait of Alice as a Young Man. He is the co-founder of Vre Books press, Agog poetry readings and Study experimental space. His debut poetry collection Two Hundred Million Musketeers (Giramondo, 2025) won the 2026 Anne Elder Award and was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry, the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry, the Mary Gilmore Award and the ALS Gold Medal.