Millennium of Turkish Literature : a concise History

Beauty and Love,
Şeyh Galib; Victoria Rowe Holbrook, trans. (New 
York: Modern Language Association of America).
2005 
Istanbul: Memories and the City,
Orhan Pamuk; Maureen Freely, 
trans. (New York: Random House).
2005– 
Journal of Turkish Literature
(the only English-language scholarly 
journal devoted in its entirety to Turkish literature), published 
annually, Talat S. Halman, ed. (Ankara: Bilkent Univ. Center for 
Turkish Literature).
2005 
Nightingales and Pleasure Gardens: Turkish Love Poems,
Talat S. 
Halman, ed. and trans.; Jayne L. Warner, assoc. ed. (Syracuse, N.Y.: 
Syracuse Univ. Press).
2005 
Turkish Delight: An Anthology of Turkish Short Stories,
Masud 
Akhtar Shaikh, comp. and trans. (Islamabad: Agha Jee).
2005 
Two Girls,
Perihan Mağden; Brendan Freely, trans. (London: Ser-
pent’s Tail).
2006 
Ash Divan: Selected Poems,
Enis Batur; Cliff ord Endres, Saliha 
Paker, Selhan Savcıgil-Endres, Mel Kenne, Coşkun Yerli, and Ron-
ald Tamplin, trans. (Jersey City, N.J.: Talisman).
2006 
Th
e Bastard of Istanbul,
Elif Şafak (New York: Viking).
2006 
Th
e Black Book,
Orhan Pamuk; Maureen Freely, trans. (London: 
Faber and Faber).
2006 
Bliss,
Zülfü Livaneli; Çiğdem Aksoy, trans. (New York: St. Martin’s 
Press).
2006 
A Brave New Quest: 100 Modern Turkish Poems,
Talat S. Halman, 
ed. and trans.; Jayne L. Warner, assoc. ed. (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse 
Univ. Press).
2006 
Creating a Man,
Necip Fazıl Kısakürek; Masud Akhtar Shaikh, 
trans. (Islamabad: Agha Jee).
2006 
Early Mystics in Turkish Literature,
Mehmed Fuad [Köprülü]; Gary 
Leiser and Robert Dankoff , eds. and trans. (London: Routledge).
2006 
Th
 e Gaze,
Elif Şafak; Brendan Freeley, trans. (London: Marion 
Boyars).

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Suggested Reading
2006 
Last Train to Istanbul,
Ayşe Kulin; John W. Baker, trans. (Istanbul: 
Everest).
2006 
A Leaf about to Fall: Selected Poems,
İlhan Berk; George Messo, 
trans. (Cambridge, U.K.: Salt).
2006 
Th
e Missing Rose,
Serdar Özkan; Angela Roome and Serdar Özkan, 
trans. (Istanbul: Timas).
2006 
Th
e Money Games,
Necip Fazıl Kısakürek; Masud Akhtar Shaikh, 
trans. (Islamabad: Agha Jee).
2006 
Orpheus,
Nazlı Eray; Robert Finn, trans. (Austin: Center for Middle 
Eastern Studies, Univ. of Texas).
2006 
Saturn: Selected Poems,
Levent Yılmaz; Ünal Aytür, trans. (River-
dale-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Sheep Meadow).
2006 
Tales from the Taurus,
Osman Şahin; Jean Carpenter Efe, ed. (Istan-
bul: Bosphorus Univ. Press).
2006 
Th
e Turkish Muse: Views and Reviews, 1960s–1990s,
Talat S. Hal-
man; Jayne L. Warner, ed. (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse Univ. Press).
2007 
101 Poems of Nazım Hikmet: A Romantic Revolutionary Turkish 
Poet,
Masud Akhtar Shaikh, comp. and trans. (Islamabad: Masud).
2007 
Aylin,
Ayşe Kulin; Dara Çolakoğlu, trans. (Istanbul: Remzi).
2007 
Th
e City in Crimson Cloak,
Aslı Erdoğan; Amy Spangler, trans. 
(New York: Soft Skull).
2007 
Inner Peace,
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar; Ender Gürol, trans. (Madi-
son, Wisc.: Turko-Tatar).
2007