Translation Review No. 68, 2004 SPECIAL ISSUE: Turkish Literature and Its Translation Sidney Wade Guest Editor Introduction ..............................................................................................................................................................5 Sidney Wade Reading Turkish Novelists and Poets in English Translation: 2000 – 2004 ...........................................................6 Saliha Paker A Chronological Bibliography of Turkish Literature in English Translation: 1949 – 2004 ..................................15 Saliha Paker and Melike Yılmaz Poems by Enis Batur, tr. by Clifford Endres and Selhan Savcıgil Staying Behind ....................................................................................................................................................19 In the Desert .....................................................................................................................................................................19 from 101 One-Liners ..............................................................................................................................................20 Güven Turan, tr. by Ruth Christie In Pursuit of a Poem: Refl ections on Translating Ottoman Turkish Poetry .........................................................23 Walter G. Andrews Poems by Mehmet Çetin, tr. by Suat Karantay Murmurings in the Ter Brugge ...........................................................................................................................33 A Kite Severed from Its String ............................................................................................................................34 The Bed ...............................................................................................................................................................35 Loneliness Between the Legs .............................................................................................................................35 A Review of Bilge Karasuʼs Death in Troy and The Garden of Departed Cats ...................................................36 Vincent Czyz The Academy ..........................................................................................................................................................39 Latife Tekin, tr. by Saliha Paker and Mel Kenne Translating Turkish Literature and “Cultranslation” ...........................................................................................43 Talât S. Halman Life Story ................................................................................................................................................................47 Edip Cansever, tr. by Richard Tillinghast My Name is Re(a)d: Translating Authority ............................................................................................................52 Erdağ Göknar The Whore of Babylon ...........................................................................................................................................61 Gülseli İnal, tr. by Sidney Wade and Serya Yeşilçay An Interview with Önder Otçu ...............................................................................................................................63 Edward Foster Potatoes .................................................................................................................................................................66 İlhan Berk, tr. by Önder Otçu Oktay Rifatʼs Blue Freedom: Mavi Özgürlük ........................................................................................................67 Richard McKane Poems by Oktay Rifat, tr. by Ruth Christie The Market ..........................................................................................................................................................70 Shepherdʼs Pipe ..................................................................................................................................................70 Poems by Ece Temelkuran, tr. by Saliha Paker and Mel Kenne The Black Swan .................................................................................................................................................70 The Swordfi sh ....................................................................................................................................................73 Fairy .......................................................................................................................................................................74 Bejan Matur, tr. by Saliha Paker and Mel Kenne Travel Notes ...........................................................................................................................................................75 Cevat Çapan, tr. by Ruth Christie A Walk ...................................................................................................................................................................76 Tuğrul Tanyol, tr. by Ruth Christie Rust ........................................................................................................................................................................76 Gülten Akın, tr. by Ruth Christie Turkeyʼs Mysterious Motions and Turkish Poetry ..................................................................................................77 Murat Nemet-Nejat from souljam ..........................................................................................................................................................80 küçük İskender, tr. by Murat Nemet-Nejat Black Mulberry ......................................................................................................................................................81 Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu, tr. by Murat Nemet-Nejat Pomegranate .........................................................................................................................................................81 Haydar Ergülen, tr. by Murat Nemet-Nejat Rage .......................................................................................................................................................................82 Necip Fazil Kisakürek, tr. by Murat Nemet-Nejat Red .........................................................................................................................................................................82 Mustafa Ziyalan, tr. by Murat Nemet-Nejat Notes on Translated Writers ...................................................................................................................................83 Notes on Contributors ............................................................................................................................................86 Henri Barbusse Anton Chekhov Harry Mulisch UNDER FIRE THE SHOOTING PARTY SIEGFRIED Newly Translated by Robin Buss Translated by Ronald Wilks Translated by Paul Vincent Introduction by Jay Winter Introduction by John Sutherland “A vivid and suspenseful...thriller about “One of the most influential of all war nov- In Penguin Classics for the first time, Hitler” (The New York Times)—from els, Henri Barbusse’s Le Feu appeared in this edition of Chekhov’s only 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