Author: aslierdogan

The passage below is an excerpt from Sevinç Türkkan’s new translation of Aslı Erdoğan’s volume of short stories,The Stone Building and Other Places. It is accompanied by an interview with the translator in which she discusses the joys and challenges of translating from Turkish to English. Erdoğan is a well-known literary figure in Turkey. She is also a journalist and human rights activist who was imprisoned by the Turkish government after the failed coup attempt in 2016 because of her column in Özgür Gündem, a pro-Kurdish opposition newspaper. Türkkan’s new translation of this award-winning book introduces Erdoğan’s literary sensibility to an English-speaking audience. “The Beginning,” excerpted below, is the opening chapter of the titular novella.

http://www.publicseminar.org/2018/11/the-pronoun-o-and-the-poetics-of-turkish-translation/

Translating works of fiction and truth is about much more than bringing the written word to an international audience. For University of Rochester professor and published translator, Sevinç Türkkan, it’s about being a vehicle for activism. Her story and work on this edition of Need to Know.

Also on the show, the search for truth and the value of trust in what some call an anti-media era. Rochester journalists and media professionals weigh in on the current media climate.

https://www.wxxinews.org/post/watch-ur-translator-gives-women-voice-tranlating-their-works-current-journalism-landscape

Eine der bekanntesten Vertreterinnen der türkischen Opposition kommt nach Braunschweig: Die Schriftstellerin und Journalistin Asli Erdogan liest am Montag, 19. November, im Braunschweiger Dom aus ihrem Buch “Nicht einmal das Schweigen gehört uns noch.”

https://www.news38.de/braunschweig/article215621179/Asli-Erdogan-Tuerkische-Oppositionelle-liest-im-Dom.html