Queer-Feminist Writing from 1970s Turkey: A Conversation with Maureen Freely on Sevgi Soysal, by Ipek Sahinler Interviews [email protected] Tue, 08/06/2024 - 16:31 Maureen Freely (left) & Funda Soysal (right)Maureen Freely is an author, translator, and professor of English and comparative literary studies at the University of Warwick. Among her many translations is Dawn, by Sevgi Soysal, which transpires over one night spent in prison. A novel from the 1970s, Archipelago published the first English version, in Freely’s translation, in 2022. In this virtual conversation, Freely shares her ideas about contemporary Turkish politics and literature along with the translation challenges she faced when rendering Dawn into English. Sevgi Soysal’s daughter, Funda Soysal, joins the conversation from Istanbul. Ipek Sahinler: I know that you’ve read Soysal’s Dawn multiple times over the decades and that each reading spoke to you differently. As its translator, how do you read this novel now, from the present moment, especially considering the very dark time Turkey is going through after the February 6 earthquake? Maureen Freely: I was reading it, or parts of it, in preparation for our conversation today, and it brought me back to the despair you can’t help feeling at the composite portrait she paints of Adana at that time. She goes into so many different heads, and there she makes visible the system in which everybody is caught.... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'
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Barnard College named Carmen Ren as the first ever recipient of its Axinn Foundation/Anna Quindlen Award for Creative Writing. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author and part-time judge Constance Briscoe, who earlier today (2nd May) was jailed for... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mimi Pond’s new book, "Over Easy," just published by Drawn & Quarterly, is her most personal work to-date. It is a mostly-true account of her time working in a café in Hollywood in the 1970s. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"Be generous to your characters: kill them, save them, break their hearts and then heal them." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Guardian Faber has acquired a new book by actor and comedian David Mitchell. Commissioning... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Marvel has released the Ms. Marvel comic book #3, Side Entrance. PW spoke with its author, G. Willow Wilson, about her unique superhero. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The biennial Festival of Faith and Writing at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., featured high-profile authors and drew 2,000 attendees eager to explore the connections between faith and creative expression. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Imprisoned Chinese economist and writer Ilham Tohti, who was arrested in his Beijing home in January, is being honored with the 2014 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Karen Stevens's collection of essays offers practical advice and inspiration for those embarking on the long, lonely journey of writing a novelAccording to Karen Stevens, "writing a novel is the longest and loneliest journey a writer can embark upon". Her collection of essays by established and... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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We can't say we know all that many people who routinely digest articles posted through Medium's social publishing platform. However, the readership is bound to go up now that the service has released an iPhone app. The mobile client is more of a... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2014-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Over the weekend, I got email from developer Jeff Nelson referencing his blog response to my BetaNews story: "Chromebook belongs to computing's past, not its future". He is among a majority of responders who disagree with my assessments about the future of PCs depending on keyboard and mouse.... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2014-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Veteran author Christian Jennings offers tips, techniques and strategies on how to write a good non-fiction proposal for submission. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lynch, who stars on the TV series 'Glee,' will co-write a story about a little girl who enjoys bullying others until someone takes her on. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Still captivated by the distinctive small Virginia town where he grew up, Billy Coffey returns to its proxy in his latest novel, which explores what happens when 20 years’ worth of guilt about a young man’s untimely death overtakes three high school classmates. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards teams up with his artist daughter to write a picture book inspired by his own granddad teaching him to play the guitar. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2014-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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During a panel at Austin's South by Southwest conference, Kaling said she is writing another book. Kaling's show 'The Mindy Project' was recently renewed for a third season. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"There are a lot of people doing a lot of things we used to do," Stephen Page told the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Writer to adapt her new novel, called Tennison, for TV in 2016, the 25th anniversary of the hit ITV drama starring Helen MirrenLynda La Plante is writing a prequel to Prime Suspect which she will adapt for TV in 2016, the 25th anniversary of the hit ITV drama.The prequel will be called Tennison,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-02-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chatto & Windus is to publish a memoir about daughterhood by social historian Juliet Nicolson... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Duchess of Cambridge has written the foreword for a book which reveals “what life as an... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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