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Suat Karantay

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Suat Karantay

Suat Karantay is a Professor of Translation Studies at Boõaziçi University in Istanbul. He is the Secretary General of the Turkish PEN Center, and the author of numerous articles on translation theory and criticism, as well as on drama and American literature, and many translations of Turkish poetry....

He is the editor of Short Dramas from Contemporary Turkish Literature, and directs the Contemporary Turkish Literature website.

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Articles by Suat Karantay

Time and Illusion
By Bejan Matur
Flying into the field of cloudsWith the taste of sun and waterThere is no night out thereNight does not fall in the distanceA silver cage around my neckLike an unfaithful concubineI lay down and curled…
Translated from Turkish by Suat Karantay
Fragments from “Real Life for the Last Scene of a Movie”
By Sebnem Isiguzel
We had to walk. This necessity made me happy. I hadn't been this happy for a long while, I thought.
Translated from Turkish by Suat Karantay
Women
By Bejan Matur
They smell of the earth when they cry out
Translated from Turkish by Suat Karantay