DATABASE

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A

Adalet Ağaoğlu

Ahmet Altan

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar

Ahmet Haşim

Ahmet Mithat Efendi

Ahmet Turan Oflazoğlu

Ahmet Ümit

Ahmet Kutsi Tecer

Ali Rıza Seyfioğlu

Aslı Biçen

Aslı Erdoğan

Aslı Perker

Ayfer Tunç

Aysel Özakın

Ayşe Kulin

Aziz Nesin

B

Barış Bıçakçı

Bejan Matur

Betül Dünder

Bilge Karasu

Birgül Oğuz

Buket Uzuner

Burhan Sönmez

C

Cevat Çapan

Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı (Halikarnas Balıkçısı)

  • Aganta Burina Burinata by The Fisherman of Halicarnassus (commissioned privately and published 500 copies in 2018, translated by Gregory Key)

Ç

Çiler İlhan

D

Defne Suman

E

Ebru Ojen

Ece Ayhan

Efe Duyan

The Behaviour of Words (translated by Aron Aji)

Elif Şafak

Ece Temelkuran

Emrah Serbes

Erendiz Atasü

F

Fatma Aliye

Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca

Ferit Edgü

Fethiye Çetin

Feyyaz Kayacan

Fırat Sunel

  • The Lighthouse Family (translated by Feyza Howell)

Füruzan

G

(Şeyh) Galip

Gülten Akın

H

Haldun Taner

Hakan Bıçakçı

Hakan Günday

Halide Edib Adıvar

Hikmet Temel Akarsu

Hulki Aktunç

Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar

İ/I

İhsan Oktay Anar

İnci Aral

İskender Pala

K

Kemal Bilbaşar

Kemal Varol

L

Lale Müldür

  • Water Music (translated by Leland Bardwell, et al.)
  • I Too Went to the Hunt of a Deer (translated by Donny Smith)

Latife Tekin

Leyla Erbil

Leyla Yıldırım 

M

Mahmut Makal

Mario Levi

Mehmet Murat Somer

Melih Cevdet Anday

Murathan Mungan

Murat Menteş and Hakan Karataş

Murat Gülsoy

Murat Tuncel

Muzaffer İzgü 

N

Nazım Hikmet

Nazlı Eray

Necati Cumalı

  • The Clogs (translated by Nüvit Özdoğru)

Nedim Gürsel

Nermin Yıldırım

Neslihan Önderoğlu

Nezihe Muhiddin

Nigâr Hanım

O

Oğuz Atay

Oktay Rifat

Orhan Kemal

Orhan Pamuk

Orhan Veli

Ö

Ömer Seyfettin

Özdemir Asaf

P

Pelin Buzluk

Perihan Mağden

R

Radi Dikici

Refik Halid Karay

Reşat Nuri Güntekin

Rıfat Ilgaz

S

Sabahattin Ali

Sait Faik Abasıyanık

Saygın Ersin

Selçuk Altun

Selim İleri

Sema Kaygusuz

Sevgi Soysal

Solmaz Kamuran

Suat Derviş

Ş

Şebnem İşigüzel

T

Tahsin Yücel

Tezer Özlü

Tuna Kiremitçi

Y

Yahya Kemal

  • Selected Poems of Yahya Kemal Bayatlı (translated by S. Behlül Toygar)

Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu

Yaşar Kemal

Yekta Kopan

Yunus Emre

Yusuf Atılgan

Z

Zülfü Livaneli

ANTHOLOGIES

An Anthology of Modern Turkish Short Stories (edited by Fahir İz; Chicago: Bibliotheca Islamica, 1978)

Content:

Ferhunde the Maid by Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil (translated by Virginia Taylor-Saçlıoğlu)

My Nephew by Müftüoğlu Ahmet Hikmet (translated by Madeline Zilfi)

Life is Sweet by Memduh Şevket Esendal (translated by Madeline Zilfi)

The Secret Shrine by Ömer Seyfettin (translated by Madeline Zilfi)

The Frog Prayer by Ömer Seyfettin (translated by Virginia Taylor-Saçlıoğlu)

Zeynep, My Zeynep by Halide Edib Adıvar (translated by Virginia Taylor-Saçlıoğlu)

The Aegean Floor by Halikarnas Balıkçısı (translated by Robert Dankoff)

The Karabulut Family by Halikarnas Balıkçısı (translated by Janet Heineck)

The Peach Orchard by Refik Halid Karay (translated by Niki Gamm)

The Girl Who Heard Voices by Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu (translated by John Taylor)

The Pigeon Shoot by Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu (translated by Robert Dankoff)

One Drink of Water by Reşat Nuri Güntekin (translated by John Taylor)

Wasting Government Time by Fahri Celalettin (translated by Robert Dankoff)

Summer Night by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (translated by Robert Dankoff)

Toy Carts Five Kurush by Sabahattin Ali (translated by John Taylor)

The Voice by Sabahattin Ali (translated by John Taylor)

The Valley of Violets by Sait Faik (translated by Virginia Taylor-Saçlıoğlu)

Love Letter by Sait Faik (translated by William C. Hickman)

The Marriage of Shepherd Ali by Kemal Tahir (translated by John Taylor)

Jelal the Bricklayer by Orhan Kemal (translated by Virginia Taylor-Saçlıoğlu)

Two Girls by Orhan Kemal (translated by John Taylor)

Rain Was Falling at Shish-hane by Haldun Taner (translated by Virginia Taylor-Saçlıoğlu)

Sebati Bey’s Expedition to Istanbul by Haldun Taner (translated by Virginia Taylor-Saçlıoğlu)

Civilization’s Spare Part by Aziz Nesin (translated by Janet Heineck)

People Are Waking Up by Aziz Nesin (translated by Janet Heineck)

The Great Wrestling Camel by Samim Kocagöz (translated by John Taylor)

In God’s Plains by Necati Cumalı (Talat Sait Halman)

Üsküdar and Hayri Bey by Oktay Akbal (translated by Janet Heineck)

Kır İzzet’s Garden by Talip Apaydın (translated by Janet Heineck)

The Loan by Talip Apaydın (translated by Janet Heineck)

I’ll Give Birth in the Mountains! by Fakir Baykurt (translated by Thomas F. Brosnahan)

Yaran Dede’s Stones by Fakir Baykurt (translated by Thomas F. Brosnahan)

Ruined Mansions by Sevim Burak (translated by Thomas F. Brosnahan)

The Last Bird by Bekir Yıldız (translated by John Taylor)

Resho Agha by Bekir Yıldız (translated by Thomas F. Brosnahan)

The River by Füruzan (translated by Louis Mitler)

The Homecoming by Vüs’at O. Bener (translated by William C. Hickman)