Sema Kaygusuz (born August 29, 1972, in Samsun, Turkey)[1] is a novelist, playwright, essayist, and short story writer from Turkey.[2][3][4][5] 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. 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.[6][7][8] 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.[9] She currently resides in Istanbul.[10]

As a screenwriter, she co-wrote the screenplay for the 2008 film Pandora's Box (Turkish: Pandora'nın Kutusu) with director Yeşim Ustaoğlu.[11]

Selected works

In Turkish

Translated works

References

  1. ^ "who's who : sema kaygusuz". www.turkishculture.org. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
  2. ^ "Sema Kaygusuz, Turkish novelist: It's a time to make things new". 2012-2013 Edinburgh World Writers' Conference. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
  3. ^ Kaygusuz, Sema (27 February 2013). "Sema Kaygusuz: Literature does not stop at national borders". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
  4. ^ "Feminist eleştirinin beklediği kitap: Gaflet". www.hurriyet.com.tr (in Turkish). Retrieved 31 January 2020.
  5. ^ "Silence, Our Noisy Silence: A Conversation with Sema Kaygusuz and Nicholas Glastonbury". PEN Transmissions. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
  6. ^ "Turkish author Sema Kaygusuz receives Coburg Rückert Prize 2016". Kunst & Kultur in Coburg. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
  7. ^ "Sema Kaygusuz". Comma Press. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
  8. ^ "71. Yunus Nadi ödüllerinin kazananları belli oldu". www.cumhuriyet.com.tr (in Turkish). Retrieved 31 January 2020.
  9. ^ "Every Fire You Tend". Tilted Axis Press. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  10. ^ "Sema Kaygusuz". The New Inquiry. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
  11. ^ "Pandora'nin kutusu". IMDB. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
  12. ^ Ce lieu sur ton visage : roman. OCLC 991289781. Retrieved 6 August 2021 – via WorldCat.
  13. ^ "'The Well of Trapped Words' by Sema Kaygusuz". Hürriyet Daily News. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
  14. ^ Imsir, Şima (4 August 2015). "Sema Kaygusuz, The Well of Trapped Words (Comma Press) £9.99, reviewed by Şima Imsir". The Manchester Review. Retrieved 31 January 2020.


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