Journal of Turkish Literature’s Orhan Pamuk Special Issue
Bilkent's Center for Turkish Literature has just published the 7th annual issue of its Journal of Turkish Literature (JTL), which is the world's only English-language scholarly journal devoted in its entirety to Turkish literature. JTL 7 is dedicated primarily to the works of Orhan Pamuk, recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. The issue features eight critical articles on Pamuk's work written by literary scholars from Turkey, the United States, Great Britain, and India. The issue also includes a special feature called "Translating Orhan Pamuk," comprising two papers written by Pamuk translators Güneli Gün and Maureen Freely on the rewards, challenges, and difficulties of translating Pamuk's work, as well as how their translations have been received by an English-speaking audience.
JTL 7 also features, in addition to the voluminous content devoted to the work of Orhan Pamuk, a review by Robert P. Finn of Azade Seyhan's Tales of Crossed Destinies: The Modern Turkish Novel in a Comparative Context (2008), which is an important comparative study of the modern Turkish novel from the 1920s to the present.
The 160-page issue is available for purchase at the Center for Turkish Literature: Faculty of Humanities and Letters, Room No: 247, Tel: ext. 2317, e-mail: temerkez@bilkent.edu.tr