Sema Kaygusuz is an award-winning author, playwright, and screenplay writer. Kaygusuz was born in Samsun and is now based in Istanbul. Read More Kaygusuz has been named the most influential Turkish writer in a poll conducted by leading literary  journal Notos, and has received commendations for Every Fire You Tend and The Well of Trapped Words from prestigious Turkish and international organizations such as English PEN. Her works have been translated into Italian, English, French, Norwegian, Swedish, German, and Kurdish. Kaygusuz’s latest novel, The Barbarian’s Laughter, translated by Nicholas Glastonbury, was published in 2015 (Metish Publishing).