Farewell: A Mansion in Occupied Istanbul (Turkish Literature) (37 page)

About the Author

AY
Ş
E KULIN
was born in Istanbul in 1941. A fiction writer and essayist, Kulin has been awarded the Haldun Taner Short Story Award, the Sait Faik Story Prize, and has twice been named writer of the year by the University of Istanbul Communication Faculty. In 2011,
Farewell: A Mansion in Occupied Istanbul
was longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

KENNETH J. DAKAN
has translated work by Buket Uzuner.

TURKISH LITERATURE SERIES

Turkish literature, from the time of independence to the present, has characterized itself by focusing on the struggles of everyday Turks and also by integrating modernist styles from the West, a trait most notable in translation in the work of Nobel prizewinner Orhan Pamuk.

This volume is the first in Dalkey Archive Press’s Turkish Literature Series, established in cooperation with Barbaros Altug and Everest Yayinlari, which will make available Turkish writers and their works who have previously had little exposure in the Anglo-phone world.

Acknowledgement is also due to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey, for its support through the TEDA subvention project.

Forthcoming in the Turkish Literature Series:

Music by My Bedside
by Kür
ş
at Ba
ş
ar

Copyright

Originally published in Turkish as
Veda
by Everest Yayınları, Ca
ğ
alo
ğ
lu, 2007

Copyright © 2007 by Ay
ş
e Kulin

Translation copyright © 2012 by Kenneth J. Dakan

First edition, 2012

All rights reserved

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kulin, Ayse.

[Veda. English]

Farewell : a mansion in occupied Istanbul / Ayse Kulin ; translated by Kenneth J. Dakan.

— 1st ed.

    p. cm.

ISBN 978-1-56478-758-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-56478-724-8 (cloth : alk. paper)

I. Dakan, Kenneth. II. Title.

PL248.K7755V4413 2012

894’.3534—dc23

2012004228

This book has been supported by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey in the framework of the TEDA project

In cooperation with Barbaros Altug and Everest Yayinlari

Partially funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, and a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency

www.dalkeyarchive.com

Cover: design and composition by Sarah French

Printed on permanent/durable acid-free paper and bound in the United States of America