Millennium of Turkish Literature : a concise History

Begged, Borrowed, and Stolen from the Th
ousand and One Nights,
Güneli Gün (London: Virago).
1991 
Th
e Poet Fuzuli: His Works, Study of His Turkish, Persian and Arabic 
Divans,
Hamide Demirel (Ankara: Ministry of Culture).
1991 
To Crush the Serpent,
Yaşar Kemal; Th
ilda Kemal, trans. (London: 
Collins Harvill).
1991 
Turkish Stories from Four Decades,
Aziz Nesin; Louis Mitler, trans. 
(Washington, D.C.: Th
ree Continents).

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Suggested Reading
1992 
Th
e City of the Heart: Yunus Emre’s Verses of Wisdom and Love,
Süha Faiz, trans. (Dorset, U.K.: Element).
1992 
Modern Turkish Poetry,
Feyyaz Kayacan Fergar, ed. and trans. 
(additional translations by Richard McKane, Ruth Christie, Talat S. 
Halman, and Mevlut Ceylan) (Ware, U.K.: Rockingham).
1992 
More Tales Alive in Turkey,
Warren S. Walker and Ahmet E. Uysal, 
comps. (Lubbock: Texas Tech Univ. Press).
1992 
Please, No Police,
Aras Ören; Teoman Sipahigil, trans. (Austin: 
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Univ. of Texas).
1992 
Turkic Oral Epic Poetry: Tradition, Forms, Poetic Structure,
Karl 
Reichl (New York: Garland).
1992 
Turkish Legends and Folk Poems,
Talat S. Halman (Istanbul: Dost).
1993 
Awakened Dreams: Raji’s Journeys with the Mirror Dede,
Ahmet 
Hilmi; Refik Algan and Camille Helminski, trans. (Putney, Vt.: 
Th
reshold).
1993 
Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills,
Latife Tekin; Ruth Chris-
tie and Saliha Paker, trans. (London: Marion Boyars).
1993 
Th
e Poetry of Can Yücel,
Feyyaz Kayacan Fergar, trans. (Istanbul: 
Papirüs).
1993 
Th
e Poetry of Yunus Emre, a Turkish Sufi Poet,
Grace Martin Smith, 
ed. and trans. (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press).
1993 
Short Dramas from Contemporary Turkish Literature,
Suat Karan-
tay, trans. (Istanbul: Bosphorus Univ. Press).
1993 
Voices of Memory: Selected Poems of Oktay Rifat,
Ruth Christie 
and Richard McKane, trans. (London: Rockingham; Istanbul: Yapı 
Kredi).
1994 
Th
e Black Book,
Orhan Pamuk; Güneli Gün, trans. (New York: Far-
rar, Straus and Giroux).
1994 
Nedim and the Poetics of the Ottoman Court: Medieval Inheritance 
and the Need for Change,
Kemal Silay (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. 
Turkish Studies).
1994 
Night,
Bilge Karasu; Güneli Gün and Bilge Karasu, trans. (Baton 
Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press).
1994 
Poems of Nazım Hikmet,
Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk, trans. 
(New York: Persea; rev. and exp. ed., 2002).
1994 
Th
 e Unreadable Shores of Love: Turkish Modernity and Mystic 
Romance,
Victoria Rowe Holbrook (Austin: Univ. of Texas Press).
1995 
A Flower Much as Turkey,
Ergin Günçe; Gülay Yurdal Michaels and 
Richard McKane, trans. (Istanbul: Broy).

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1995 
Th
e Song Contest of Turkish Minstrels: Improvised Poetry Sung to 
Traditional Music,
Yıldıray Erdener (New York: Garland).
1996 
101 Poems by 101 Poets: An Anthology of Turkish Poetry,
Mevlut 
Ceylan, ed. (Istanbul: Metropolitan Municipality of Istanbul).
1996