Sema Kaygusuz
Sema Kaygusuz (born August 29, 1972, in Samsun, Turkey) is a novelist, playwright, essayist, and short story writer from Turkey. Her work has been translated into English, Italian, German, French, Swedish, and Norwegian. She won a Yunus Nadi Award in 2016 for her novel Laughter of the Barbarian.
Sema Kaygusuz
- Born
- 1972 · Samsun.
- Nationality
- Turkey
- Occupation
- writer · screenwriter · novelist
- Fields
- screenplay
- Education
- Gazi University
- Honours
- Yunus Nadi Prize
- Languages
- Turkish
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Sema Kaygusuz, écrivaine, naquit le 29 août 1972.
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Le lieu de naissance de Sema Kaygusuz est Samsun, Turquie, selon la Deutsche Nationalbibliothek et la Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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Among other accolades, she is a recipient of the Cevdet-Kudret-Literature Award, the France-Turquie Literary Award, and was named laureate of the German Friedrich Rückert Prize. The English translation of her novel Yüzünde Bir Yer (Every Fire You Tend) won both the TA First Translation Prize and an English PEN Award. She currently resides in Istanbul.
• Ortadan Yarısından (short story), 1997 • Sandık Lekesi (short story), 2000 • Doyma Noktası (short story), 2002 • Esir Sözler Kuyusu (short story), 2004 • Yere Düşen Dualar (novel), 2006 • Yüzünde Bir Yer (novel), 2009 • Karaduygun (short story), 2012 • Barbarın Kahkahası (novel), 2016 • Aramızdaki Ağaç Yazılar (essays), 2019
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• Wein und Gold Roman, translated by Barbara Yurtdaş and Hüseyin Yurtdaş (Suhrkamp Verlag, 2008) • La chute des prières: roman, translated by Noémi Cingöz (Actes Sud, 2009) • Ce lieu sur ton visage: roman, translated by Catherine Erikan (Actes Sud, 2013) • En bønn faller til jorden, translated by Cora Skylstad (Cappelen Damm, 2015) • Platsen i ditt ansikte, translated by Ulla Bruncrona (Ersatz, 2015) • The Well of Trapped Words, translated by Maureen Freely (Comma Press, 2015) • L'éclat de rire du barbare, translated by Catherine Erikan (Lettres turques, 2017) • Every Fire You Tend, translated by Nicholas Glastonbury (Tilted Axis Press, 2019) • La risata del barbaro, translated by Giulia Ansaldo (Voland, 2020) • The Passenger: Turkey (Europa Editions, 2021)
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1972
Sema Kaygusuz born at Samsun.
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- 1.who's who : sema kaygusuz. www.turkishculture.org.
- 2.Sema Kaygusuz, Turkish novelist: It's a time to make things new. 2012-2013 Edinburgh World Writers' Conference.
- 3.Kaygusuz, Sema. Sema Kaygusuz: Literature does not stop at national borders. The Guardian. 27 February 2013.
- 4.Feminist eleştirinin beklediği kitap: Gaflet. www.hurriyet.com.tr.
- 5.Silence, Our Noisy Silence: A Conversation with Sema Kaygusuz and Nicholas Glastonbury. PEN Transmissions.
- 6.Turkish author Sema Kaygusuz receives Coburg Rückert Prize 2016. Kunst & Kultur in Coburg.
- 7.Sema Kaygusuz. Comma Press.
- 8.71. Yunus Nadi ödüllerinin kazananları belli oldu. www.cumhuriyet.com.tr.
- 9.Every Fire You Tend. Tilted Axis Press.
- 10.Sema Kaygusuz. The New Inquiry.
- 11.Pandora'nin kutusu. IMDB.
- 12.Ce lieu sur ton visage : roman. 991289781.
- 13.'The Well of Trapped Words' by Sema Kaygusuz. Hürriyet Daily News.
- 14.Imsir, Şima. Sema Kaygusuz, The Well of Trapped Words (Comma Press) £9.99, reviewed by Şima Imsir. The Manchester Review. 4 August 2015.
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