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Maureen Freely
Maureen Deidre Freely Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, FRSL (born July 1952) is an American journalist, novelist, professor, and translator. She has worked on the Warwick Writing Programme since 1996. Biography Born in Neptune Township, New Jersey, Neptune, New Jersey, she is the daughter of author John Freely, and has a brother, Brendan. Maureen Freely grew up in Turkey. She graduated from Harvard College. She now lives in England. She is the mother of four children and two step-children. She was married to Paul Spike, with whom she had a son and a daughter. Freely is an atheist. Work Freely lectures at the University of Warwick and is an occasional contributor to ''The Guardian'' and ''The Independent'' newspapers. She is the current president of English PEN, the founding centre of PEN International. Among her novels is ''The Life of the Party'', set in Turkey. She has also written ''The Other Rebecca'', a contemporary version of Daphne du Maurier's classic 1938 n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Robert College
The American Robert College of Istanbul ( tr, İstanbul Özel Amerikan Robert Lisesi or ), often shortened to Robert, or RC, is a Selective school, highly selective, Independent school, independent, mixed-sex education, co-educational Secondary school, high school in Turkey.The Education in Turkey, Turkish education system divides schools into two classes: public or private. According to this classification, Robert College is a private school. The school is situated in a wooded campus on the European side of Istanbul in the Beşiktaş district, with the historic Arnavutköy neighborhood to the east and the upscale Ulus neighborhood to the west. Founded in 1863, Robert College is the oldest continuously operating American school outside the United States. Robert College is consistently ranked as the top private high school in Turkey. The school has a long list of Robert College alumni, list of notable alumni, including entrepreneurs, politicians, journalists, artists, three List ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sait Faik Abasıyanık
Sait Faik Abasıyanık (18 November 1906 – 11 May 1954) was one of the greatest Turkish writers of short stories and poetry and considered an important literary figure of the 1940s. He created a brand new style in Turkish literature and brought new life to Turkish short story writing with his harsh but humanistic portrayals of labourers, fishermen, children, the unemployed, and the poor. His stories focused on the urban lifestyle and he portrayed the denizens of the darker places in Istanbul. He also explored the "...torments of the human soul and the agony of love and betrayal..." Biography Born in Adapazarı, on 18 November 1906, he was educated at Istanbul Lisesi in Istanbul and then in Bursa. He enrolled in the Turcology Department of Istanbul University in 1928, but under pressure from his father went to Switzerland to study economics in 1930. He left school and lived from 1931 to 1935 in France (mainly Grenoble) – an experience which had a deep impact on his art and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Time Regulation Institute
''The Time Regulation Institute'' ( tr, Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü) is a novel by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar. It began serialization in a newspaper in 1954. It was first published as a book in 1961. Yapı Kredi Yayınları republished the novel in 1999 as part of a campaign to publish various novels by Tanpınar in book form. Selim Kuru of the University of Washington wrote that the 1999 version was "poorly edited".Kuru, p. 258. An English translation by Ender Gürol was published in 2001 by the Turco-Tatar Press. The English version includes an essay by Berna Moran and an appendix. This appendix includes a section not present in the Turkish versions. Another English translation by Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe was published by Penguin Classics was released in 2013.Sayrafiezadeh, Saïd.The Time Regulation InstituteArchive. ''Publishers Weekly''. October 21, 2013. Retrieved on December 2, 2015. Kuru stated that ''The Time Regulation Institute'' "has an unbalanced flow" sinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (23 June 1901 – 24 January 1962) was a Turkish poet, novelist, literary scholar and essayist, widely regarded as one of the most important representatives of modernism in Turkish literature. In addition to his literary and academic career, Tanpınar was also a member of the Turkish Parliament between 1944 and 1946. Early life and education Tanpınar was born in Istanbul on 23 June 1901, the youngest of three children. His father, Hüseyin Fikri Efendi, was a judge. Hüseyin Fikri Efendi was of Georgian origin, his family having roots in the city of Maçahel.M. Orhan Okay''Bir hülya adamının romanı: Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar'' Dergâh Yayınları, 2010, , p. 26. Tanpınar's mother, Nesime Bahriye Hanım, died of typhus in Mosul in 1915, when Tanpınar was thirteen. Because his father's vocation required frequent relocation, Tanpınar continued his education in several different cities, including Istanbul, Sinop, Siirt, Kirkuk, and Antalya. After quitting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madonna In A Fur Coat
Madonna in a Fur Coat is a novel written by Turkish author Sabahattin Ali that was published in 1943. The book tells the story of Raif, who is living a purposeless life until he meets a woman named Maria Puder. Initially, the book was criticized by many critics because "it was just another love story", but it became a bestseller in time, and is usually is recalled among the best works in Turkish literature. It was translated to English by Maureen Freely in 2016, making Sabahattin Ali one of the two Turkish authors to be included in Penguin Classics, alongside Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar with his book, "The Time Regulation Institute". Development Sabahattin Ali's daughter, Filiz Ali, in an interview with BBC, has stated that she found Maria was inspired by a real life acquaintance of Sabahattin. Sabahattin Ali, as a young man in Berlin in the 1920s, knew a woman called Maria. They sent letters to each other, and often walked together, occasionally holding hands. Storyline The stor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabahattin Ali
Sabahattin Ali (25 February 1907 – 2 April 1948) was a Turkish novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. Early life He was born in 1907 in Eğridere township (now Ardino in southern Bulgaria) of the Sanjak of Gümülcine (now Komotini in northern Greece), in the Ottoman Empire. His father was an Ottoman officer, Selahattin Ali, and his mother Husniye. His father's family was from the Black Sea region. He lived in Istanbul, Çanakkale and Edremit before he entered the Teacher School in Balıkesir. His elementary and middle school education was interrupted by WWI, contributing to his difficult childhood. Then he was transferred from Balikesir to the School of Education in Istanbul, where he graduated in 1926 with a teacher's certificate. His various poems and short stories were published in the school’s student paper. After serving as a teacher in Yozgat for one year, he earned a fellowship from the Ministry of National Education and studied in Potsdam, Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Black Book (Pamuk Novel)
''The Black Book'' (''Kara Kitap'' in Turkish) is a novel by Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk. It was published in Turkish in 1990 and first translated by Güneli Gün and published in English in 1994. In 2006, it was translated into English again by Maureen Freely. Plot The protagonist, an Istanbul lawyer named Galip, finds one day that his wife Rüya (the name means "dream" in Turkish) has mysteriously left him with very little explanation. He wanders around the city looking for his clues to her whereabouts. He suspects that his wife has taken up with her half-brother, a columnist for ''Milliyet'' named Celal, and it happens that he is also missing. The story of Galip's search is interspersed with reprints of Celal's columns, which are lengthy, highly literate meditations on the city and its history. Galip thinks that by living as Celal he can figure out how Celal thinks and locate both him and his wife, so he takes up residence in Celal's apartment, wearing his clothes and eventuall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fethiye Çetin
Fethiye Çetin () (born 4 May 1950 in Maden, Elazığ Province) is a Turkish lawyer, writer and human rights activist. Biography Growing up in Maden, Fethiye Çetin had no reason to suspect that she had other than Turkish Muslim roots, until her maternal grandmother, Seher, revealed to her that her real name was not Seher: she was by birth an Armenian Christian, named Heranuş Gadaryan. Heranuş was born to parents Hovannes and Isguhi Gadaryan, and was taken from her mother's arms during a death march in the course of the Armenian genocide. This legacy inspired Çetin's first book, a memoir published in 2004 about her grandmother's story entitled ''My Grandmother: An Armenian Turkish Memoir''. The memoir follows Heranuş through the eyes of her granddaughter, from memories of Çetin's childhood, to the horrendous events of the Armenian genocide her grandmother revealed to her as an adult. Çetin discovered that all the men of Heranuş' village had been slaughtered in 1915, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Museum Of Innocence
''The Museum of Innocence'' ( tr, ) is a novel by Orhan Pamuk, Nobel-laureate Turkish novelist published on August 29, 2008. The book, set in Istanbul between 1975 and 1984, is an account of the love story between the wealthy businessman Kemal and a poorer distant relative of his, Füsun. Pamuk said he used YouTube to research Turkish music and film while preparing the novel. An excerpt, entitled "Distant Relations", appeared in ''The New Yorker'' on September 7, 2009. The English translation, by his long-time collaborator Maureen Freely, was released on October 20, 2009 by Alfred A. Knopf. Plot Kemal has been engaged to a pretty girl named Sibel for two months when he meets a shop girl, Füsun, while buying a handbag for his fiancee. What follows in the next month and a half is an intense and secretive physical and emotional relationship between them. Kemal's happiest moment of life comes while making love the day Füsun confesses her deep love for him. Though it is clear tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Memories And The City
Memory is the faculty of the mind by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed. It is the retention of information over time for the purpose of influencing future action. If past events could not be remembered, it would be impossible for language, relationships, or personal identity to develop. Memory loss is usually described as forgetfulness or amnesia. Memory is often understood as an informational processing system with explicit and implicit functioning that is made up of a sensory processor, short-term (or working) memory, and long-term memory. This can be related to the neuron. The sensory processor allows information from the outside world to be sensed in the form of chemical and physical stimuli and attended to various levels of focus and intent. Working memory serves as an encoding and retrieval processor. Information in the form of stimuli is encoded in accordance with explicit or implicit functions by the working memory proces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snow (Pamuk Novel)
''Snow'' ( tr, Kar) is a novel by Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk. Published in Turkish in 2002, it was translated into English by Maureen Freely and published in 2004. The story encapsulates many of the political and cultural tensions of modern Turkey and successfully combines humor, social commentary, mysticism, and a deep sympathy with its characters. ''Kar'' is the word for Snow, but the main character also abbreviates his name to Ka (his initials), with the novel set in the eastern Turkish city of Kars. An opening (and recurring) theme concerns reasons behind a suicide epidemic among teenage girls (which actually took place in the city of Batman). Plot summary Though most of the early part of the story is told in the third person from Ka's point of view, an omniscient narrator sometimes makes his presence known, posing as a friend of Ka's who is telling the story based on Ka's journals and correspondence. This narrator sometimes provides the reader with information before Ka kno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
