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Series · 3 books · 1996-2007

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Bütün Kadınların Kafası Karışıktır

1996

Bütün Çocuklar, bir kez olsun, anne ve babalarını cezalandırmak için ölmeyi düşünmüştür mutlaka. Ve nedense hep ağlamışlardır düşün sonunda. Belki bu öykü de bir cezalandırma, Ağlama? Bunları oku. denize karşı bir sigara yak. tek şekerli, demli bir çay koy masaya, çok neşeli bir müzik çalsın mutlaka, kapat gözlerini, gülümse, çünkü... Bütün kadınların kafası karışıktır, çünkü... Bir gün bir anda, bazı kızgınlıklarını unuttuğunun farkına varacaksın, artık pek düşünmediğini, çünkü artık bildiğini anlayıp, ellerini bir klarnet taksimi gibi uzatacaksın, hâlâ kafan karışık olacak, ama artık bunu seveceksin, sevmelisin de. Kadınsın... ... Bir çiçeğin yanından geçer gibi yaşamalıyız aslında.
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İç Kitabı

2004

Müjdeliyorum: Yeni çağın yeni kıtası "iç" tir. Kırpıntısız seyahatlerin vakti gelmiştir. Pek yakında insan, kendi "iç"ine gidecektir. Ve: Kendimden bir melek kopartıp, fırlattıysam bile "sözlü" âleme, yine de hiçbir şey onu bir karıncaya çeviremeyecektir. İşte bu yüzden, atıp çözdüğüm düğümleri, bu iç yolculuk hikâyesini -elbette hâlâ taşıyorsa meleksi kıpırdanışları- bu sözleri, sadece melekler sevecektir.
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#3

The Shore Book

2007

Ece Temelkuran is arguably Turkey’s most accomplished young writer. In Book of the Edge, she describes an allegorical journey wherein the speaker, or explorer, encounters strange creatures, including a butterfly, bull, swordfish, sow bug, and cruel city dwellers. These poems point to the undeniable connection between all living beings. Born 1973 in Turkey, Ece Temelkuran (www.ecetemelkuran.com) has published eight books of poetry, prose, and nonfiction. An award-winning daily columnist for Milliyet, she was a 2008 visiting fellow at the University of Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Translator Deniz Perin received the 2007 Anna Akhmatova Fellowship for Younger Translators. Translated with an Introduction by Deniz Perin Ece Temelkuran is arguably Turkey’s most accomplished young writer. Born 1973 in Turkey, she has published eight books of poetry, prose, and nonfiction. An award-winning daily columnist for Milliyet, she was 2008 Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. In Book of the Edge, Temelkuran describes an allegorical journey wherein the speaker, or explorer, encounters strange creatures, including a butterfly, bull, swordfish, sow bug, and cruel city dwellers. These poems point to the undeniable connection between all living beings. "The poems in Book of the Edge are not overtly political. Some are not political at all. Those that make political statements do so in an understated, allegorical way. Temelkuran’s goal in these poems is to explore the human condition, exposing our weaknesses and our potential. But her insight into, and interpretation of, this human condition are undoubtedly inspired, at least in part, by her socially-involved upbringing and her many years of work as a journalist. "The book is, to use Baudelaire’s words, an invitation to a voyage. The speaker asks the reader to become an explorer, to leave the city and embark upon a journey of self-discovery. Although each poem stands alone, the poems work together to describe this quest; they turn into a modern, poetic fable, in which speaker, explorer, and reader merge into one. ‘You may not know it yet,’ says the speaker in the prologue, a wink at what is to come. ‘You are just like me.’” —Deniz Perin, from the Introduction

Author

Ece Temelkuran
Ece Temelkuran
Author · 21 books

Ece Temelkuran, Turkish author, was born in 1973. She is a daily columnist of one of the most popular Turkish newspapers for ten years and a prize winning journalist. Her primary concerns that she addresses are the contemporary criticism of popular culture, masques of politics, women issues, and all other deteriorating identities of humanity. She uses various forms of dramatic sentimentalism and black humor together, combined with her postmodern style, creating space for tactful connections to everyday life. She is the author of three experimental literary fiction books written in the form of poem in prose, and a documentary book on hunger strikes. Lately she published two collections of articles from her column. Temelkuran is the pioneering signature of her generation with opposing voice as a young intellectual, and always brave to tell about “never to talk subjects” of Turkey. She graduated from Faculty of Law, Ankara University in 1995. She started her journalism studies at Cumhuriyet newspaper in 1993. She worked on women’s movement, Southeast Issue in Turkey and also political detainees. Her first book, “All Women Are Confused “ was published in 1993.She was chosen as the “Journalist of the year” by German government and then she made a research on Women movement in Germany in 1993, the same year when she was chosen as the Journalist of the year. Her research book “My Son, My Daughter, My State-The Mothers Of Detainees- From Homes To Streets.” Was published in 1997. She was awarded by Office of Doctors since she had a research paper “Virginity Test is A Crime” for Cumhuriyet journal. Her poem- prose books “From the Edge” and “Voice Of The Inside” were published by Everest. She went to Brazil in 2003 and to India in 2004 to observe World Social Forum. She examined the nation movement after the economic Crisis in Argentina. Her books that include newspaper articles Voice Of The Inside and From Outside were published by Everest in 2005. She took the Idea and Democracy Award by the Office of Doctors in Turkey with her book “We Are Having Revolution Here, Senorita!” (Everest, 2006). She was also awarded by Diyarbakır Democratic Platform with her book “What Should I Tell You?”. Ece Temelkuran, who deserved the award of Freedom for Idea by Ayşenur Zorakolu, keeps writing on her column “From The Edge” at Haberturk newspaper and her latest books “The Deep Mountain” (2008) and “Sounds of Bananas” (2010) are published by Everest.

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