Silence, Our Noisy Silence: A Conversation with Sema Kaygusuz and Nicholas Glastonbury
Sema Kaygusuz and Nicholas Glastonbury discuss shame, representation and the Turkish language.
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If This is a Lament
Exclusive preview of the title poem, 'If this is a lament', from a new chapbook of work by Turkish poet Bejan Matur, translated by Jen Hadfield and Canan Marasligil.
The Greatest Turkish Novel?
Kaya Genç discusses the cultural and literary legacy of Hamdi Tanpınar whose 1961 novel 'The Time Regulation Institute' was published this year as a Penguin Classic.
Living by the pen
What is the cost of going on the payroll for a writer in Turkey?
A literature in search of its language
Ciwanmerd Kulek charts the ongoing struggle for the Kurdish language, and whether being a language that is now more written than spoken threatens it in new and troubling ways
A wind blows from Gezi Park
This week PEN Atlas returns to Turkey for an update on Gezi Park. Müge İplikçi reflects on recent events and draws parallels between the treatment of protestors and the ongoing stifling of Turkish writers, who work in a system in which profit is the only validation.
On the sublimation of authority
Hakan Günday unpacks the notion of authority and censorship, and considers its effects on civilians
The Walnut Tree of Gezi Park
Following recent events, PEN Atlas is running an additional dispatch this week from Turkey. Kaya Genç writes for us about Nâzım Hikmet Ran, whose poem 'The Walnut Tree' has taken on a prophetic turn and an inspirational one in light of Gezi Park
Literature rises in the East
Ayfer Tunç writes for PEN Atlas about the importance of looking beyond the clichés so that Turkish literature is seen in the context of World Literature.