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Translation Attached @tra-attached.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🥁🥁🥁 NEW RELEASE! We’re delighted to announce the publication of Memduh Şevket Esendal’s (1883–1952) Beneath the Handkerchief and Other Tales, translated into English by Etkin Hanson. 📚 Now available to order: Amazon link.amazon/B02RGyMi5 and @bookshop.org bookshop.org/a/108403/978...

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Translation Attached @tra-attached.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

📢Translation Attached is delighted to announce the publication of Captives: A Play and the Collected Poems by Sabahattin Ali. The book brings together Ali’s only known play with a wide selection of his poetry. Available worldwide on Amazon: amzn.to/4d22V7a #sabahattinali

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Translation Attached @tra-attached.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Read M. Sevgi Şen’s review of Scenes of Life in the current print edition of @raintaxi.bsky.social 👉🏼 raintaxi.com/rain-taxi-re...

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Translation Attached @tra-attached.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Curious what others have written about our books? Head over to our website to browse reviews published over the years. Our books in review 👉🏽 translationattached.com/publications...

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Translation Attached @tra-attached.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

By @burcukarahan.bsky.social “The stories open a world where desire is unpunished, humor softens daily troubles, and flirtation becomes a form of freedom.” Featured in the 2025 newsletter of the American Association of Turkic Languages #AATT www.aatturkic.org/newsletters

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Translation Attached @tra-attached.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Review highlight 📣 "Scenes of Life vividly portrays women’s sociability—friendship as crucial to women’s and girls’ sanity if not their survival in a world shaped by patriarchally honed expectations, discourses, and institutions." 👉🏼 sites.bu.edu/artichoke/re... #fatmaaliye

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Translation Attached @tra-attached.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

We love spotting our titles on university shelves. Can you find ours among the DLCL faculty books at Stanford? Here is your clue: 💋 @burcukarahan.bsky.social

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Translation Attached @tra-attached.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Proud moment 🥹 Our very first book, Stories of Exile, makes it onto the same syllabus for the second time, and now has a review by translation scholar Cihan Ünlü. Links (or scan the image 👀): tinyurl.com/3mk2v5av (academia edu) tinyurl.com/bdcwvtr2 (journal of Middle Eastern Literatures)

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Translation Attached @tra-attached.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The introduction I wrote to The Women of Islam (1893) by Fatma Aliye (trans. Greg Key) is now live on our website 🛶translationattached.com/2026/01/16/int… To order a copy 👉 amzn.to/4qvjQ6v

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Translation Attached @tra-attached.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Turkish Literature in Translation Reading Group celebrates its 6th year and 29th event with a new theme:”Why Translate Late-Ottoman Lit?”In Jan, İpek Şahinler will host @burcukarahan.bsky.social (Stanford) to discuss her recent translation 1001 Kisses.Register: literaturcapodcast.com/turkish-lite...

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Translation Attached @tra-attached.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Dive into translator Burcu Karahan’s mental journey as she grapples with the words "kedi" and "merkez," and read a story from One Thousand and One Kisses👉 Now available Stanford’s Arcade 🐈 shc.stanford.edu/arcade/interve… #historicalromance #eroticfiction #ottomanturkish #istanbul

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Translation Attached @tra-attached.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

We began the year with two titles and are ending it with five! If you love literature in translation and stories from around the world, or if it’s giving season and you’d like to support a small press, take a look at our list: translationattached.com/available-now/ 🎄📚🐝

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Translation Attached @tra-attached.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

We’re happy to announce our latest release: The Women of Islam (1893) by Fatma Aliye, one of the first Ottoman women writers and intellectuals. Through imagined conversations with European women visiting Istanbul, Aliye challenges orientalist assumptions head-on. To order a copy 👉 amzn.to/3YuAIOa

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Translation Attached @tra-attached.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

An erotic ghost story? What a concept 👻 Find it in One Thousand and One Kisses (tr. @burcukarahan.bsky.social)! A hauntingly sultry story, where desire lingers beyond the grave, or so it seems 🎃 To read the story 👉 translationattached.com/2024/10/30/t...

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Translation Attached @tra-attached.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Your Halloween spirit craving a haunted house tale? 🎃 Here’s one from Nezihe Muhiddin (1898–1958), written in the 1930s, where nothing is as it seems🏚️ translationattached.com/from-the-works… #thehauntedhouse #Halloween #nezihemuhiddin #turkishliteratureintranslation

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Translation Attached @tra-attached.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Türkçe adıyla Binbir Buse, @burcukarahan.bsky.social çevirisiyle yayınevimizdn çıktı🎉Kitapta original baskıda yer alan karikatürlere&tatlı mı tatlı çizimlere de yer verdik.Ayrıca kitabın tarihsel arkaplanına ışık tutan,çevirmenin yazdığı bir giriş yazısı da var.Kapak resmi @aliyaycioglu.bsky.social

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Translation Attached @tra-attached.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Stories of Exile is a vivid slice of Middle Eastern life in the early 20th century told through the eyes of an educated Ottoman-Turkish writer, Refik Halid Karay. At a time of upheaval, then as now, Lebanon to Palestine comes alive in these striking stories. 📖 Grab your copy 👉 amzn.to/3V5dc8V

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Translation Attached @tra-attached.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

📚 Fresh review alert! Translating the Ottoman Grotesque: Hande Eagle brings Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar’s Ghoulyabânî (2024) to life in English 👉 sites.bu.edu/artichoke/re... Heartfelt thanks to Roberta Micallef for reviewing the novel 🌻 #Ghoulyabânî

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Translation Attached @tra-attached.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Looking for your next summer read? Our April release is a heartfelt celebration of female friendship. Perfect for long days and warm nights, this book reminds us that true companionship can carry us through anything🌿 #SummerReads

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Translation Attached @tra-attached.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Don’t forget to add some literary works in translation from around the world to your summer #TBR list! We’ve got a few stellar picks for you: translationattached.com/available-now/ #turkishliterature #worldlit #translatedlit

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Translation Attached @tra-attached.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

A month after its release, Scenes of Life is receiving the attention it deserves. Heartfelt thanks to everyone who has ordered a copy! We truly appreciate your support ~ teşekkür ederiz! 🪴 Fancy reading a chapter from the book? Head to our website: translationattached.com/2024/12/13/a...

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Translation Attached @tra-attached.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Purchase your copy today 👻 amzn.to/43ZOU5V

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Translation Attached @tra-attached.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Thrilled to hear that our very first publication, Stories of Exile by Refik Halid Karay, is now part of a university syllabus in the U.S. for a course of the same name! Students are in for a treat. Grab your copy and enjoy these quirky, twist-filled tales! amzn.to/4lB4afP (paperback & e-book)

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Translation Attached @tra-attached.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

We’re delighted to announce the publication of our third book, Scenes of Life by Fatma Aliye. Set in late 19th-century Istanbul, this epistolary novel unfolds through eleven letters exchanged between five women, exploring female friendship and marriage. Now available! amzn.to/3G960UZ

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Translation Attached @tra-attached.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Translation Attached üçüncü kitabını yayınladı! Maşallah bu yayınevine 🧿🧿🧿

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Translation Attached @tra-attached.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

We’re on Instagram too! If you prefer to keep up with Translation Attached there, give us a follow. And if you do it today, you’ll catch some exciting news in our story! 🎉 @translationattached

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Translation Attached @tra-attached.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Nora Lafi's review of Suraiya Faroqhi's "Women in the Ottoman Empire: A Social and Political History" features a picture of Nezihe Muhiddin, an early 20th-century feminist activist. You can read her short story, "The Haunted House," on our website. translationattached.com/from-the-wor...

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Translation Attached @tra-attached.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I leafed through Karay's Stories of Exile yesterday as I revisited "The Antique Dealer," a story I had recommended to an art historian colleague. This collection is filled with eccentric characters and unforgettable tales. Order a copy! You won’t be disappointed: a.co/d/hxywAd9

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Translation Attached @tra-attached.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Halide Edib Adıvar: The Forgotten (Self-)Translator Behind the Writer 👉 nesirdergisi.com/index.php/ne...

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Translation Attached @tra-attached.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

✨ COVER REVEAL ✨ We're overjoyed to share the cover of our upcoming title, Scenes of Life by Fatma Aliye (1862–1936). Written as a series of letters between five women and published in 1897-1898, this epistolatory novel explores love and marriage in the late Ottoman Empire.

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