Authors
Öyküm Kaplan Arabacı
After studying at Istanbul Technical University and Boğaziçi University, Öyküm Kaplan Arabacı completed her doctoral work at the Max Planck Institute in Germany. A molecular biologist and neuroscientist, she continued her academic career as a visiting researcher at the University of Oslo. She distilled many years of scientific work into her first book, The Universe Within — an unmatched introduction to the mesmerising world seen through a microscope, translating complex scientific truths into the language of everyday life.
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The Man Has a Point, Gentlemen
Born in Adana in 1984. His essays, translations and poems have appeared in the magazines zinhar, ücra, heves, siyahi, duvar, palaspandıras, kontra, kaygusuz and assolist. He has edited poetry and philosophy titles for many publishers. His published poetry collections are yalaka (2013) and blitzkrieg (2015).
Oğuzcan Önver
Oğuzcan Önver was born in Istanbul in 1993. He founded the fanzine Palaspandıras with Abdulkadir Gıynaş, and currently publishes the magazine Pangram with Zübeyir Topal. His first poetry collection, Spontanlığını Muhafaza, was published by 160. Kilometre in 2015. His poems and essays have appeared in Palaspandıras, Pangram, Duvar, Ücra, Mosmodern, Fütüristika! and Manifold.
Nikola Petković
Born in 1962. He works in the Cultural Studies and Philosophy departments at the University of Rijeka, Croatia, where he also chairs the European Studies department. Petković is a writer, literary critic, translator, screenwriter and scholar. He is the author of seventeen books of fiction, poetry, essays and scholarship. He translates his own Croatian books into English himself.
Eva Meijer
Sea NowThe Politics of Silence (A Book on Keeping Silent)The Limits of My LanguageAnimal Languages
Artist, writer, poet, short-story writer, philosopher, musician, songwriter and academic. Meijer's first novel, Het schuwste dier (The Shyest Animal), appeared in 2011, her second, Dagpauwoog (Peacock Butterfly), in 2013, and her third, Het vogelhuis (The Bird House), in 2016. In 2018 she received the Halewijnprijs for her body of work. Meijer's research concerns the languages, political voices and ways of thinking of animals; the work that most widened her international recognition is Animal Languages (KAPLUMBaA Kitap, 2019). The Limits of My Language has been translated into many languages, Turkish among them.
Susan Faludi
Born in New York in 1959, the first child of a family of Hungarian immigrants. She graduated with honours from Harvard University in 1981. In 1991 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her investigation exposing irregularities in the share sale of Safeway Stores, one of the largest supermarket chains in the United States. In the Darkroom is the fourth book by Faludi — one of America's foremost feminist journalists — to be published in Turkish. It was one of three finalists for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in biography.
Ylva – Hilde Østby
Hilde Østby, born 1975, is a Norwegian writer, historian of ideas, journalist and former editor. Her first novel appeared in 2013 under the title Lexicon om lengsel. Adventures in Memory, written with her sister, has been published in seventeen countries. Ylva Østby, born 1979, is a Norwegian neuropsychologist and writer. She completed her doctorate at the University of Oslo on the neurocognitive development of children and adolescents, and continues her postdoctoral work at the same university.
Alsem Roidi
Born in Bakırköy in 1984. Yegâne is his first novel and Home his second. He occupies himself with farming, publishing and writing. He is married to Eda Gül.
Alper Alpözgen
Born in Istanbul. He graduated from the Department of Multimedia and Communication Design at Yıldız Technical University. He wrote and directed stage and television shows. He died in 2020.
Sırrı Can Kara
Born in Istanbul in 1996. A lawyer. His poems and essays have appeared in magazines including Fayrap, Kaygusuz, Askar, Kontra and Duvar.
Anne Manne
Anne Manne is a writer based in Melbourne. She is a regular columnist for The Australian and The Age. In recent years her work has focused on child abuse, pornography, sexual violence and disability. Her book Motherhood: How Should We Care for Our Children won the 2006 Walkley Award for best non-fiction book. The Life of I: The New Culture of Narcissism is her first book to appear in Turkish.
Katharina Vestre
Scientist, writer and researcher. Born in 1992, Vestre is pursuing her doctorate in the Department of Biosciences at the University of Oslo. The Making of You: The Story of You Before You Were Born — nominated for the 2018 Brage Prize and already translated into twenty-four languages — is published in Turkish for the first time.
Mojca Kumerdej
Mojca Kumerdej is a Slovenian writer, thinker and art critic. In her novels and short prose she favours a candid, passionate and knowledge-driven manner, undertaking meticulous research into historical and scientific themes. She is also a noted dramaturge and playwright: her Projektator, staged at the Borštnikovo Srečanje theatre festival, won the award for best dramaturgy. Fragma is her first novel.