📢Database updated! Our website hosts a growing repository of Turkish literature in English translation. Bookmark it as your go-to reference or dive in to discover your next read! 👉 translationattached.com/database/ #Database #translationattached #turkishliteratureintranslation

An erotic ghost story? What a concept 👻 Find it in One Thousand and One Kisses (tr. @burcukarahan.bsky.social)! A hauntingly sultry story, where desire lingers beyond the grave, or so it seems 🎃 To read the story 👉 translationattached.com/2024/10/30/t...

Your Halloween spirit craving a haunted house tale? 🎃 Here’s one from Nezihe Muhiddin (1898–1958), written in the 1930s, where nothing is as it seems🏚️ translationattached.com/from-the-works…#thehauntedhouses#Halloweene#nezihemuhiddini#turkishliteratureintranslationon

Bin Bir Buse serisi İngilizceye çevrildi - Burcu Karahan: "Osmanlı kadınları, bu metinlerde kadına verilen özgürlük gücünü memnuniyetle karşıladı"

Türkçe adıyla Binbir Buse, @burcukarahan.bsky.social çevirisiyle yayınevimizdn çıktı🎉Kitapta original baskıda yer alan karikatürlere&tatlı mı tatlı çizimlere de yer verdik.Ayrıca kitabın tarihsel arkaplanına ışık tutan,çevirmenin yazdığı bir giriş yazısı da var.Kapak resmi @aliyaycioglu.bsky.social

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📯📯 One Thousand and One Kisses 💋 is now out from @tra-attached.bsky.social! 💫 Heartfelt thanks to @aliyaycioglu.bsky.social for 🎨 cover art; and Louis de Bernieres, @ratherserious.bsky.social, and @whitejenny.bsky.social for their generous support. Order here 👉 translationattached.com/available-now/

New Book Alert 📣 One Thousand and One Kisses is out now! Written by anonymous authors in 1920s&translated by @burcukarahan.bsky.social, these cheeky tales promise laughter, mischief, and the occasional blush💋 Cover art by @aliyaycioglu.bsky.social To order 👉🏼 translationattached.com/available-now/

🎙️ Burcu Karahan @burcukarahan.bsky.social chats with Suzie Ferguson of Ottoman History Podcast about how erotic fiction transformed from manuscript to print culture in the Ottoman Empire👀 Plus, the story behind One Thousand and One Kisses - out soon! 📖 #1001kisses 💋 open.spotify.com/episode/4GV7...

Stories of Exile is a vivid slice of Middle Eastern life in the early 20th century told through the eyes of an educated Ottoman-Turkish writer, Refik Halid Karay. At a time of upheaval, then as now, Lebanon to Palestine comes alive in these striking stories. 📖 Grab your copy 👉 amzn.to/3V5dc8V

While translating "One Thousand and One Kisses," I found myself deep in euphemisms and literary sleuthing—merkez مركز, it turns out, is much more than just “center.” #seviyorummerkez

"The word kedi (cat) in Turkish is not commonly used as a euphemism for female genitalia, as it is in French (chatte) or English (pussy). Yet in this story, that euphemism was clearly intended." Read more 😽👉🏼 translationattached.com/2025/08/27/m...

Step inside the translator’s mind 👉 Don't miss @burcukarahan.bsky.social Burcu Karahan’s Translator’s Note for One Thousand and One Kisses. The book is coming soon with a stellar cover! #translatorsnote #turkishliteratureintranslation 💋 translationattached.com/2025/08/27/m...

Need a little spice? 🔥 One Thousand and One Kisses 💋 brings you cheeky, erotic tales from early 20th-century Istanbul. Coming soon… Here’s a bite: translated by Burcu Karahan translationattached.com/2024/10/30/t...

📌"This translation will be of particular interest to scholars of late Ottoman literature, folklore, and gender satire, as well as to general readers interested in #ghost stories with a bite. It stands as a welcome contribution to the field of world #literature in #translation."

📚 Fresh review alert! Translating the Ottoman Grotesque: Hande Eagle brings Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar’s Ghoulyabânî (2024) to life in English 👉 sites.bu.edu/artichoke/re... Heartfelt thanks to Roberta Micallef for reviewing the novel 🌻 #Ghoulyabânî

Don’t forget to add some literary works in translation from around the world to your summer #TBR list! We’ve got a few stellar picks for you: translationattached.com/available-now/ #turkishliterature #worldlit #translatedlit

Looking for your next summer read? Our April release is a heartfelt celebration of female friendship. Perfect for long days and warm nights, this book reminds us that true companionship can carry us through anything🌿 #SummerReads

Don’t forget to add some literary works in translation from around the world to your summer #TBR list! We’ve got a few stellar picks for you: translationattached.com/available-now/ #turkishliterature #worldlit #translatedlit

A month after its release, Scenes of Life is receiving the attention it deserves. Heartfelt thanks to everyone who has ordered a copy! We truly appreciate your support ~ teşekkür ederiz! 🪴 Fancy reading a chapter from the book? Head to our website: translationattached.com/2024/12/13/a...

Do you like reading translators' notes? I have shared the note I wrote for Fatma Aliye's Scenes of Life (1898) on our website. Hope you enjoy it 👉🏽 translationattached.com/2025/04/29/t... #translatorsnote #fatmaaliye #turkishliteratureintranslation

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Thrilled to hear that our very first publication, Stories of Exile by Refik Halid Karay, is now part of a university syllabus in the U.S. for a course of the same name! Students are in for a treat. Grab your copy and enjoy these quirky, twist-filled tales! amzn.to/4lB4afP (paperback & e-book)

We’re delighted to announce the publication of our third book, Scenes of Life by Fatma Aliye. Set in late 19th-century Istanbul, this epistolary novel unfolds through eleven letters exchanged between five women, exploring female friendship and marriage. Now available! amzn.to/3G960UZ

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Fiction can serve as a portal to a bygone era. The region we call the Middle East looked vastly different in the early 20th century, yet literature from that time often offers glimpses of what was to come. A compelling example is Stories of Exile by R.H. Karay, which I recommend 📚 amzn.to/4gVvBxf

Şu resmin kaynağını, orijinalininin nerede olduğunu bilen var mı? (Cenap Şahabettin, Abdülhak Hamit, Mithat Cemal Kuntay, Mehmet Akif Ersoy ve oğlu, Samipaşazade Sezai)

Google Books Ngram Viewer is an incredible tool for tracing historical trends in language and culture over centuries. We relied on it extensively while editing our last book to trace the origins and usage of certain words and phrases. Highly recommended. books.google.com/ngrams/

We've recently received a note from an academic who praised our translation of Refik Halid Karay's Stories of Exile, calling it "çok iyi" (very good)! It’s so rewarding to receive such uplifting feedback for a project we poured our heart and soul into! www.amazon.ca/Stories-Exil...

Fwiw, I think it's very impoverishing to read literature primarily via a lens of "here are the ways in which they failed to hold our enlightened and correct views about XYZ in the past."

Nora Lafi's review of Suraiya Faroqhi's "Women in the Ottoman Empire: A Social and Political History" features a picture of Nezihe Muhiddin, an early 20th-century feminist activist. You can read her short story, "The Haunted House," on our website. translationattached.com/from-the-wor...

“I went at least three or four times a week and I read everything there. I mean, every single book in that library [New York Public Library]. In some blind and instinctive way, I knew that what was happening in those books was also happening all around me.+++

I leafed through Karay's Stories of Exile yesterday as I revisited "The Antique Dealer," a story I had recommended to an art historian colleague. This collection is filled with eccentric characters and unforgettable tales. Order a copy! You won’t be disappointed: a.co/d/hxywAd9

Here is an excerpt from our upcoming title, Scenes of Life (1898) by Fatma Aliye (1862–1936)🔖 translationattached.com/2024/12/13/a... #fatmaaliye #scenesoflife #epistolarynovel #ottomanturkishliterature #turkish

Here is an excerpt from our upcoming title, Scenes of Life (1898) by Fatma Aliye (1862–1936)🔖 translationattached.com/2024/12/13/a... #fatmaaliye #scenesoflife #epistolarynovel #ottomanturkishliterature #turkish

The Journal of Literary Studies: Nesir's 7th issue features a self-translation by Zeynep Kürük Erçetin, initially published in Turkish in a collection focusing on women translators in Turkey.

This is the first Ottoman Turkish to English translation of Nigâr Hanım's short story "The Blizzard". In this story, Nigar Hanim, a prominent nineteenth-century Ottoman woman writer, poet, and lyricist, brings together Sufi undertones and Romantic symbols to express her suffering. 👇

Google Books Ngram Viewer is an incredible tool for tracing historical trends in language and culture over centuries. We relied on it extensively while editing our last book to trace the origins and usage of certain words and phrases. Highly recommended. books.google.com/ngrams/

"A translator is not just a copyist, trying to replicate the original as closely as possible: a translator is necessarily producing new work in and for a new context—in this case, an English-language context— dif­ferent from the original’s." lithub.com/why-close-re...

Fatma Aliye finally in English!

✨ COVER REVEAL ✨ We're overjoyed to share the cover of our upcoming title, Scenes of Life by Fatma Aliye (1862–1936). Written as a series of letters between five women and published in 1897-1898, this epistolatory novel explores love and marriage in the late Ottoman Empire.