Sema Kaygusuz Explained

Sema Kaygusuz (born August 29, 1972, in Samsun, Turkey)^[1] is a novelist, playwright, essayist, and short story writer from Turkey.^{[2] [3] [4] [5]} Her work has been translated into English, Italian, German, French, Swedish, and Norwegian. She won a Yunus Nadi Award in 2016 for her novel Laughter of the Barbarian. Among other accolades, she is a recipient of the Cevdet-Kudret-Literature Award, the France-Turquie Literary Award, and was named laureate of the German Friedrich Rückert Prize.^{[6] [7] [8]} The English translation of her novel Yüzünde Bir Yer (Every Fire You Tend) won both the TA First Translation Prize and an English PEN Award.^[9] She currently resides in Istanbul.^[10]

As a screenwriter, she co-wrote the screenplay for the 2008 film Pandora's Box (Turkish: Pandora'nın Kutusu) with director Yeşim Ustaoğlu.^[11]

Selected works

In Turkish

• Ortadan Yarısından (short story), 1997
• Sandık Lekesi (short story), 2000
• Doyma Noktası (short story), 2002
• Esir Sözler Kuyusu (short story), 2004
• Yere Düşen Dualar (novel), 2006
• Yüzünde Bir Yer (novel), 2009
• Karaduygun (short story), 2012
• Barbarin kahkahasi (novel), 2016
• Aramızdaki ağaç yazılar (essays), 2019

Translated works

• Wein und Gold Roman, translated by Barbara Yurtdas and Hüseyin Yurtdas (Suhrkamp Verlag, 2008)
• La chute des prières: roman, translated by Noémi Cingöz (Actes Sud, 2009)
• Ce lieu sur ton visage: roman, translated by Catherine Erikan (Actes Sud, 2013)^[12]
• En bønn faller til jorden, translated by Cora Skylstad (Cappelen Damm, 2015)
• Platsen i ditt ansikte, translated by Ulla Bruncrona (Ersatz, 2015)
• The Well of Trapped Words, translated by Maureen Freely (Comma Press, 2015)^{[13] [14]}
• L'éclat de rire du barbare, translated by Catherine Erikan (Lettres turques, 2017)
• Every Fire You Tend, translated by Nicholas Glastonbury (Tilted Axis Press, 2019)
• La risata del barbaro, translated by Giulia Ansaldo (Voland, 2020)
• The Passenger: Turkey (Europa Editions, 2021)

Notes and References

1. Web site: who's who : sema kaygusuz . www.turkishculture.org . 31 January 2020.
2. Web site: Sema Kaygusuz, Turkish novelist: It's a time to make things new . 2012-2013 Edinburgh World Writers' Conference . 10 August 2021.
3. Web site: Kaygusuz . Sema . Sema Kaygusuz: Literature does not stop at national borders . The Guardian . 31 January 2020 . 27 February 2013.
4. Web site: Feminist eleştirinin beklediği kitap: Gaflet . www.hurriyet.com.tr . 31 January 2020 . tr.
5. Web site: Silence, Our Noisy Silence: A Conversation with Sema Kaygusuz and Nicholas Glastonbury . PEN Transmissions . 10 August 2021.
6. Web site: Turkish author Sema Kaygusuz receives Coburg Rückert Prize 2016 . Kunst & Kultur in Coburg . 10 August 2021.
7. Web site: Sema Kaygusuz . Comma Press . 10 August 2021.
8. Web site: 71. Yunus Nadi ödüllerinin kazananları belli oldu . www.cumhuriyet.com.tr . 31 January 2020 . tr.
9. Web site: Every Fire You Tend . Tilted Axis Press . 6 August 2021.
10. Web site: Sema Kaygusuz . The New Inquiry . 10 August 2021.
11. Web site: Pandora'nin kutusu . IMDB . 10 August 2021.
12. Book: Ce lieu sur ton visage : roman . WorldCat . 991289781 . 6 August 2021.
13. Web site: 'The Well of Trapped Words' by Sema Kaygusuz . Hürriyet Daily News . 31 January 2020 . en.
14. Web site: Imsir . Şima . Sema Kaygusuz, The Well of Trapped Words (Comma Press) £9.99, reviewed by Şima Imsir . The Manchester Review . 31 January 2020 . 4 August 2015.