Ahmet Büke was born in Gördes, Manisa in 1970. His debut collection Đzmir Postasının Adamları (The Men of the Izmir Post; 2004) was followed by the collections Çiğdem Külahı (A Cone of Sunflower Seeds; 2006), Alnı Mavide (Brows in the Blue; 2008), for which the author was awarded the Oğuz Atay Short Story Prize, Kumrunun Gördüğü (What the Pigeon Saw, 2010), for which Büke received the prestigious Sait Faik Short Story Award, and most recently Ekmek ve Zeytin (Bread and Olives, 2011). His short story 'Time Decay' has been published in English translation in Transcript Review. For the complete translation: http://www.transcript-review.org/en/issue/transcript-32-new-prose-fiction-from-turkey/ahmet-buke

The film adaptation of Our Grand Despair was a huge critical success, winning the People’s Choice Award and Special Prize at the Istanbul International Film Festival, and receiving a Golden Berlin Bear nomination in 2011.

Please see the link for details: http://www.ourgranddespair.com/kategori/26/trailer

Bıçakçı’s new novel The Mosquito Bite Scribe is out now!

Fethiye Çetin's groundbreaking memoir My Grandmother, an immediate bestseller in Turkey, and translated into nine languages, was the inspiration for the follow-up The Grandchildren. When the former book’s publisher and author began receiving letters from readers who’d had a similar experience—finding out late in life that at least one of their grandparents was Armenian—they decided to put together this striking collection.

These intimate, moving interviews with 25 grandchildren of Armenians from all across Turkey provide a whole new perspective on the human catastrophe of 1915 via ‘minor’ histories that no official discourse is able to account for.

This chilling collection tells the stories of twenty-one women, each of whom bears their womanhood like a curse. Twenty-one women, all lonely, all wandering along the edges of life, and sanity.

The book is beautifully, if darkly, illustrated by reknowned caricaturist and artist Bahadır Baruter. Watch the book trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs8DTm1v3XY

She can’t sleep while the flies make love,

What about you?

Could you be able to sleep while the flies make love?

The one-woman play While the flies make love starring Merve Engin, adapted and directed by Mine Söğüt, has met with great acclaim in Istanbul. The duo is working on a second play based on another story in the collection.

Author's Previous Publishers:

Five Sevim Apartment Building: Djinn-fairy Yarns Spun with Interpretations of Dreams;

Arabic (Cadmus), German (Ruffel), Romanian (Editoriala Vivaldi).