Letting a Wild Ride Be a Wild Ride: A Conversation with Amy Spangler, by Ipek Sahinler & Iclal Vanwesenbeeck Interviews [email protected] Wed, 07/05/2023 - 14:43 Amy Spangler is the co-translator (with Nermin Menemencioğlu) of Leylâ Erbil’s A Strange Woman (Deep Vellum, 2022). The publisher describes A Strange Woman as “the pioneering debut novel by one of Turkey’s most radical female authors [who] tells the story of an aspiring intellectual in a complex, modernizing country.” Spangler is currently working on a forthcoming title by Leylâ Erbil called Kalan (What Remains) in collaboration with Alev Ersan and Mark David Wires. Ipek Sahinler and Iclal Vanwesenbeeck: As far as we know, you were acquaintances with Leylâ Erbil. Can you tell us how you decided to translate this specific novel by her? Amy Spangler: My agency began representing Leylâ Erbil around 2010. So I had the pleasure and honor of knowing Leylâ Hanım for several years and visiting her many times. My work with Leylâ Hanım was initially as a literary agent only. As such I was focusing on selling foreign rights to A Strange Woman to begin with for two reasons, really: the first was for the simple, practical reason that a complete English translation, by Nermin Menemencioğlu, already existed, which meant that foreign editors and publishers could read the book. Not to discount an earlier German translation of the book that already existed, but English is simply... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'
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