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İLHAN SAMI ÇOMAK ten poems

İlhanSami Çomak isvirtuallyunknown inEnglish. Convicted as a young university student for ostensible separatism, he is now about 25 years into what is likely to be a 30-year total prison sentence. He writes poetry in both Turkish and his native Kurdish.

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HAKAN GÜNDAY Needlefish (novel excerpt)

Hakan Günday (born in Rhodes, Greece, 1976) is one of the most celebrated young novelists in today’s Turkish literary scene. Though he left his studies in political science to pursue a writing career, his work continues to explore the rules that govern human society and behavior. Since publishing Kinyas Kayra , considered Turkey’s first underground novel, in 2000, he has written numerous bestselling novels. His novel about people-smugglers in Turkey, More , was named the Best Turkish Novel of 2011 and received the 2015 Prix Médicis Étranger in France. – Public Space

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