Pınar Selek • A Grotesque Sentence
Acquitted four times, Pınar Selek, sociologist, teacher and researcher, has just been sentenced to life imprisonment again by Turkey’s Supreme Court.
Lire la suiteAcquitted four times, Pınar Selek, sociologist, teacher and researcher, has just been sentenced to life imprisonment again by Turkey’s Supreme Court.
Lire la suiteInvestigating new forms of writing about reality, the Kurdish magazine Wêje û Rexne (Literature and Criticism) conducted an interview with writer Joseph Andras. Here is a version in English.
Lire la suiteIn closing this chronicle that has stretched out across these one hundred days of this current war in Europe, I return to the Black Sea and Turkey.
Lire la suitePour clore cette chronique à propos d’Ukraine, qui s’est prolongée sur cent jours de cette guerre en Europe, je reviens vers la Mer Noire et la Turquie.
Lire la suite“Raconte-moi le fournil” m’a-t-elle dit, “cette vitre transparente à quatre yeux”. “Parce que” dis-je, “Caserne, en rampant, déménagea jusqu’à la caisse du fournil.”
Lire la suiteThen I meet those who read what I write. They look at my life as a bayonet and ask “you’re the one writing these texts?”. “Not at tall, ladies and gentlemen”, I tell them, “who am I to allow myself the right to write?”
Lire la suiteJe croise celles et ceux qui lisent ce que j’écris. Ils regardent ma baïonnette de vie, et me questionnent “c’est toi qui écris ces textes ?” “qui suis-je pour me permettre d’écrire ?”…
Lire la suiteA Bilge Aksu column, dedicated to the Kurdish artist Nûdem Durak, imprisoned since 2015, about the ongoing cultural censorship in Turkey.
Lire la suiteUn article Bilge Aksu, dédié à l’artiste kurde Nûdem Durak, emprisonnée depuis 2015, à propos des censures culturelles en cours en Turquie.
Lire la suiteCette planète est déboitée de son axe. Moi, maintenant j’attends que les extraterrestres arrivent. Qu’ils viennent, qu’ils me prennent, et m’amènent d’ici…
Lire la suiteThe deepest darkness of night took shelter in the morning’s chest. In the stable, Dappir and Derman’s eyes broke through the darkness.
Lire la suiteThe Austrian Theodor Kramer Prize, rewarding writers in resistance or in exile, was awarded to the Kurdish author Meral Şimşek for the year 2022.
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