Dilek Akdemir (b. 1975, Duisburg, Germany) is a graduate of Marmara University’s Preschool Education Teaching Department. She is co-founder of AnatoliaLit Agency.
İdil Aydoğan (b. 1982, London, UK) moved to Turkey in 1996 and studied English Language and Literature at Ege University. She received her MA in Comparative Literature from King’s College London. Her English translations of Turkish short stories have been published in various books and magazines.
Amy Spangler (b. 1978, Circleville, Ohio, USA) is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College, with B.A. degrees in Near Eastern and Classical Archaeology and German Language and Literature. Co-founder of AnatoliaLit, Spangler is the translator of
The City in Crimson Cloak by Asli Erdogan (Soft Skull, 2007) and the co-editor and co-translator of
Istanbul Noir (Akashic Books, 2008). Her English translations of Turkish short stories have been published in various books and magazines.
Muhtesim Güvenç (b. 1979, Muş, Turkey) is a graduate of the Marmara University Department of English Teaching. He is the Turkish translator of
Mother of the Believers by Kamran Pasha (Epsilon, 2010) and
A History of Language by Steven Roger Fischer (İş Bankası, forthcoming). He has been a part of the AnatoliaLit team since 2008.
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