Sabri Gürses (born February 7, 1972) is a Turkish writer. He has published

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s, and

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. His best-known novel in Turkey is ''Sevişme'' ("Making Love"), which is a

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novel about the way people use their bodies in a postmodern age. He has also written a science fiction trilogy, ''Boşvermişler'' (which may be translated as "The Ones Who Gave Up"). After graduating from the Russian Language and Literature Department of Istanbul University in 1999 he started working as a professional literary translator. In 2005 he completed his master’s degree at the Translation Studies Department of the same university with a thesis on comparative translation criticism: “

Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ( ; 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (), was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist. Born in Imperial Russia in 1899, Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Rus ...

’s Translation of

Eugene Onegin ''Eugene Onegin, A Novel in Verse'' (, Reforms of Russian orthography, pre-reform Russian: Евгеній Онѣгинъ, романъ въ стихахъ, ) is a novel in verse written by Alexander Pushkin. ''Onegin'' is considered a classic of ...

and Translations of Onegin in Turkish”. In 2019 he earned his doctorate at the Erciyes University with a thesis on the

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founder Juri Lotman: “Juri Lotman: His life, his works and his legacy”. As a literary translator, Gürses has made many translations from Russian and English to Turkish; among his translations are works by

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, Juri Lotman,

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, John Smolens,

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, Charles Nicholl,

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, Niall Lucy,

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and

Annie Proulx Edna Ann Proulx ( ; born August 22, 1935) is an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. She has written most frequently as Annie Proulx but has also used the names E. Annie Proulx and E.A. Proulx. She won the PEN/Faulkner Award f ...

. His translation of

’s Glossolalia was awarded by Pushkin Institute in 2009 and translation of Goncharov’s novel

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was selected one of the two best translations in 2010 by the literary magazine Dunya Kitap. In 2011 he got the Young Voice Award from the Society of Translation. His translation of Eugene Onegin was longlisted by Institut Perevoda in Moscow in 2018. In 2005, he started publishing an online magazine, ''Çeviribilim'', focused on translation studies in Turkey. The magazine has gone to print after 2010 and since 2013 has become a publishing house focused on translation studies. Since then books by translation scholars such as Faruk Yücel, Alev Bulut, Nihal Yetkin Karakoç, Ayşe Ece, Douglas Robinson have been published from this publishing house also called Çeviribilim.

Books

*''Sevişme'' (1996; reprint 2015) *''Boşvermişler: bir bilimkurgu üçlemesi'' (1996), *''Maceraperest Turan Sözlüğü'' (2013) *''Türk Mitolojisi'' (2018)

References

External links

Çeviribilim
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