Bibliography
A Bibliography of Ottoman and Turkish Literature Available For Purchase in English
Prepared for Artichoke by Roberta Micallef and Esra Özdemir
November 2023
Ağaoğlu, Adalet. Rabia’s Return. 1. Ed, Epsilon Yayıncılık, 2005.
Ağaoğlu, Adalet, and Figen Bingül. Summer’s End. 1st ed, Talisman House, 2008.
Ağaoğlu, Adalet, and John Goulden. Curfew. Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 1997.
Ahmet Mithat, et al. Felâtun Bey and Râkım Efendi: An Ottoman Novel. First edition, Syracuse University Press, 2016.
Akarsu, Hikmet Temel. Loser’s Tale (Kadıköy Sound): Rock “n” Novel. Createspace, 2015.
Akın, Gülten. Turkish Poetry Today 2017. Edited by Mel Kenne et al., Red Hand Books, 2017.
Aktunç, Hulki. Twelfth Song. Translated by Leland Bardwel, et al. Dublin, Poetry Ireland, 1998.
—. What Have You Carried over?: Poems of 42 Days and Other Works. Edited by Saliha Paker and Mel Kenne, First edition, Talisman House, Publishers, 2014.
Ali, Sabahattin and David Selim Sayers. Madonna in a Fur Coat. Translated by Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe, Penguin Classics, 2021.
Altun, Selcuk. Songs My Mother Never Taught Me. Telegram Books, 2009.
Anday, Melih Cevdet. The Mikado Game (A Play). Trans. by Nermin Menemencioğlu, The Turkish Centre of the International Theatre Institute, 1980
Andrews, Walter G., et al., editors. Ottoman Lyric Poetry: An Anthology. Expanded ed, University of Washington Press, 2006.
Asaf, Özdemir. To go to. Poems. Translated by Yildiz Moran, published by Sanat Basimevi, 1964.
Atasü, Erendiz, and Elizabeth Maslen. The Other Side of the Mountain. 1st English ed, Milet Publisher, 2000.
Ayhan, Ece. A Blind Cat Black and The Orthodoxies. Trans. by Murat Nemet-Nejat, Green Integer; Translation edition, 2015.
Berk,İlhan. Selected Poems by İlhan Berk. Edited by Önder Otçu. Jersey City, NJ: Talisman House Publishers, 2004.
Boyle, Alison, et al. The Dance of the Eagle and the Fish. Milet, 2001.
Bilbaşar, Kemal. Gemmo. Trans. Esin B. Rey and Marina Fitzpatrick, London, 1976
Cumalı, Necati. Sea Rose. Translated by Nilbahar Ekinci, Ankara: Ministry of Culture Publications, 1991.
Capan, Cevat. Where Are You, Susie Petschek? The Poems of Cevat Capan. Translated by Michael Hulse and Cevat Capan. Todmorden: Arc Publications, 2001.
Çetin, Fethiye, and Maureen Freely. My Grandmother: An Armenian-Turkish Memoir. Verso, 2012.
Dağlarca, Fazıl Hüsnü, and Talât Sait Halman. The Bird and I, Cross-Cultural Review, 1980
Dağlarca, Fazıl Hüsnü, and Talât Sait Halman. Selected Poems, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1969.
Dağlarca, Fazıl Hüsnü, and Talât Sait Halman. Quatrains of Holland, Istanbul, 1977.
Dağlarca, Fazıl Hüsnü, and Talât Sait Halman. Defense against the Night: Poems. First edition, Imprint Press Inc, 2014.
Davaslıgil, Halil & Davaslıgil, Ayten (eds.). Turkish Short Stories, Ankara, 1955
Dilmen, Güngör. I, Anatolia. Translated by Talât Sait, 1991.
Halman; Ankara: Ministry of Culture Publications.
Edgü, Ferit, et al. The Wounded Age and Eastern Tales. New York Review Books, 2022.
Emre, Yunus. Yunus Emre and His Mystical Poetry, trans. by Talât Sait Halman, Indiana University Turkish Studies, 1991
Emre, Yunus. The City of the Heart: Yunus Emre’s Verses of Wisdom and Love. Translated by Suha Faiz. Longmead, Element Books Limited, 1992.
Emre, Yunus. a Turkish Sufi Poet. Translated by Grace Martin Smith. Berkeley, University of
California Publications in Modern Philology, Vol. 127, 1993
Erdoğan, Aslı, and Amy Spangler. The City in Crimson Cloak. Soft Skull Press, 2007.
Erdoğan, Aslı, and Sevinç Türkkan. The Stone Building and Other Places. City Lights Books, 2018.
Ergin Günçe. A Flower Much as Turkey. Translated by Gülay Yurdal Michaels and Richard McKane.
Istanbul: Broy Yayınları, 1995.
Ersin, Saygın, and Mark Wyers. The Pasha of Cuisine. First English edition, Arcade Publishing, 2018.
Faik , Sait. A Dot on the Map: Selected Stories, ed. by Talât Sait Halman; Bloomington, Indiana
University Turkish Studies, 1983.
Fergar Kayacan, Feyyaz (edited by). Modern Turkish Poetry. Ware, UK, The Rockingham Press, 1992.
Fergar Kayacan, Feyyaz (edited by). The Poetry of Can Yücel. Istanbul, Papirüs Yayınları, 1993.
Füruzan. A Summer Full of Love. Translated by Damian Croft. London, Milet Publishing Ltd, 2001.
Güntekin, Reşat Nuri, et al. Çalikuşu (the Wren): The Complete English Translation : A Turkish Classic. Second edition, 2020.
—. Falling Leaves (Yaprak Dökümü). Translated by W. D. Halsey, Publisher not identified, 2013.
Güntekin, Reşat Nuri, The Autobiography of a Turkish Girl, Published by George Allen & Unwin, London 1949 (Trans. by Wyndham Deedes)
Gürsel, Nedim. The Last Tram. Comma Press, 2011.
Halman, Talât Sait, editor. Contemporary Turkish Literature: Fiction and Poetry. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1982.
Halman, Talât Sait, and Jayne L. Warner, editors. Nightingales & Pleasure Gardens: Turkish Love Poems. 1st ed, Syracuse University Press, 2005.
Halman, Talât Sait, editor. Modern Turkish Drama: An Anthology of Plays in Translation, Bibliotheca Islamica, 1976.
Halman, Talât Sait and Yannis Goumas. Greek and Turkish Poets of Today special issue of Pacific Quarterly Moana, Hamilton, 1979
Halman, Talât Sait, editor. Turkish Legends and Folk Poems. Istanbul, Dost Yayınları, 1992.
Hinks, Jim, and Gul Turner, editors. The Book of Istanbul: A City in Short Fiction. Comma, 2010.
Iz, Fahir, editor. An Anthology of Modern Turkish Short Stories. Bibliotheca Islamica, 1978.
Kanık, Orhan Veli, et al. Listening to Istanbul: Selected Poems of Orhan Veli Kanık. Autumn Press, 2002.
Kanık, Orhan Veli, and Talât Sait Halman. I am Listening to Istanbul: Selected Poems of Orhan Veli Kanık, Pub. By Corinth Books, New York, 1971
Kanık, Orhan Veli, and Talât Sait Halman. Just for the Hell of It: 111 Poems. Multilingual Yabancı Dil Yayınları, 1997.
Kanık, Orhan Veli, and George Messo. The Complete Poems. Shearsman Books, 2016.
Kanık, Orhan Veli, and Murat Nemet-Nejat. I, Orhan Veli: Poems. Hanging Loose Press, 1989.
Karabaş, Seyfi & Yarnall Judith (translated by). Poems by Karacaoğlan. Bloomington, Indiana University Turkish Studies and Ministry of Culture Joint Series XIV, 1996.
Karantay, Suat, editor. Contemporary Turkish Short Fiction: A Selection. Çitlembik ; [Distributor] Nettleberry, 2009.
Karantay, Suat, editor. Short Dramas from Contemporary Turkish Literature. Istanbul, Boğaziçi University Publications, 1993.
Karaosmanoglu, Yakup Kadri. Stepmother Earth. Milet ltd, 2020.
Karasu, Bilge, et al. A Long Day’s Evening. City Lights Books, 2012.
—. Night. Louisiana State University Press, 1994.
Karasu, Bilge, and Aron Aji. Death in Troy. City Lights, 2002.
—. The Garden of Departed Cats. New Directions Pub. Corporation, 2003.
Karay, Refik Halit. Stories of Exile. Edited by Karolina Dejnicka and Nefise Kahraman, 2022.
Köksal, Sırma, et al., editors. Turkish Literature by Quotations. 1st ed, Epsilon Yayıncılık, 2004.
Kulin, Ayşe, and John W. Baker. Last Train to Istanbul. Amazon Crossing, 2010
Levi, Mario, and Ender Gürol. Istanbul Was a Fairy Tale. 1st ed, Dalkey Archive Press, 2012.
Lewis, Geoffrey, editor. The Book of Dede Korkut. Penguin, 1974. Livaneli, Zülfü, and Brendan Freely. Disquiet. Other Press, 2021.
—. Serenade for Nadia. Other Press, 2020.
Livaneli, Zülfü, and Ayşe A. Şahin. The Last Island. Other Press, 2022.
Kemal, Orhan. Ward 72. Translated by Nevzat Erkmen. Ankara: Ministry of Culture Publications, 1993.
Kemal, Orhan. Murtaza: The King of His Duty. First English edition, Everest Publications, 2016.
Kemal, Orhan. My Father’s House: The Idle Years. First English edition, Everest Publications, 2014.
Kemal, Orhan. The Idle Years: My Father’s House and The Idle Years. Peter Owen Publishers, 2008.
Kemal, Orhan. The Prisoners. Translated by Cengiz Lugal. Istanbul, Anatolia Publishing, 2003.
Kemal, Orhan. Gemilé. Translated by Cengiz Lugal. Istanbul, Anatolia Publishing, 2003.
Kemal, Orhan. My Fatherʼs House (The Story of a Small Man-1). Translated by Cengiz Lugal. Istanbul, Anatolia Publishing, 2003.
Kemal, Orhan. The Idle Years (The Story of a Small Man-2). Translated by Cengiz Lugal. Istanbul, Anatolia Publishing, 2003.
Mağden, Perihan, and Richard Hamer. The Messenger Boy Murders. 1st English ed, Milet Pub, 2003.
Makal, Mahmut and Wyndham Deedes. A Village in Anatolia, Vallentine, Mitchell & Co. 1st edition, 1954.
Matur, Bejan. In the Temple of a Patient God. Translated by Ruth Christie. Todmorden, Arc Publications, 2004.
Menemencioğlu, Nermin and İz, Fahir (trans. by). The Penguin Book of Turkish Verse, Penguin; First Edition, 1978.
Müldür, Lale. Water Music. Translated by Leland Bardwel et al. Dublin, Poetry Ireland, 1998.
Nazım Hikmet — See Ran, Nazım Hikmet
Nemet-Nejat, Murat. Turkish Voices. 1st ed., Punctum Books, 2022.
Nemet-Nejat, Murat (edited by). Eda: An Anthology of Contemporary Turkish Poetry. Jersey City, NJ,
Talisman House Publishers, 2004.
Nesin, Aziz, et al. Hayri the Barber: Surnâmé. Southmoor Studios, 2001.
Nesin, Aziz. Istanbul Boy 1: Böyle Gelmiş, Böyle Gitmez: The Autobiography of Aziz Nesin, Part I; trans. Joseph S. Jacobson; the Univ. of Texas at Austin Press, 1977.
Nesin, Aziz. Istanbul Boy. 2: Yol = (The Path). Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Univ. Of Texas at Austin, 1979.
Nesin, Aziz. Istanbul Boy. 3: Yokuşun Başi = (The Climb). Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Univ. Of Texas at Austin, 1990.
Nesin, Aziz, Aziz Nesin, et al. Laugh or Lament? Selected Short Stories of Aziz Nesin. 1st ed, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Turkey, 2002.
Nesin, Aziz, Boyle Alison, et al. The Dance of the Eagle and the Fish. Milet, 2001.
Nesin, Aziz, Talat Sait Halman, et al. The Tales of Nasrettin Hoca. Dost Yayınları, 1988.
Nesin, Aziz, and Louis Mitler. Turkish Stories from Four Decades. 1st ed, Three Continents Press, 1991.
Nesin, Aziz. Istanbul Boy: Middle School Years – The Autobiography of Aziz Nesin, Part IV. Translated by Joseph S. Jacobson. Utah, Southmoor Studios, 2000.
Nesin, Aziz. Dog Tails. Translated by Joseph S. Jacobson. Utah, Southmoor Studios, 2000.
Nesin, Aziz. Out of the Way! Socialismʼs Coming. Translated by Damian Croft. London, Milet Publishing Ltd, 2002.
Nesin, Aziz. Socialism Is Coming: Stand Aside. Translated by Joseph S. Jacobson, Utah, Southmoor
Studios, 2002.
Öğüt, Hande, editor. Istanbul in Women’s Short Stories. First English edition, Milet Publishing, 2012.
Özakın, Aysel. The Prizegiving. Trans. by Celia Kerslake, London, The Womenʼs Press Ltd., 1988
Pala, İskender, and Ruth Whitehouse. Tulip of İstanbul / İskender Pala; Translated from the Turkish by Ruth Whitehouse. 1. Edition, Kapı, 2014.
Pamuk, Orhan. A Strangeness in My Mind. First American edition, Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
—. Nights of Plague. Translated by Ekin Oklap, Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.
—. Snow. 1. Vintage International ed, Vintage International, 2005.
—. The Black Book. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994.
—. The White Castle. 1st U.S. ed, Braziller, 1991.
—., and Maureen Freely. Istanbul: Memories and the City. 1st American ed, Knopf, 2005.
—. The Museum of Innocence. 1st North American ed, Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
—., and Erdağ M. Göknar. My Name Is Red. Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.
—., and Güneli Gün. The New Life. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1997.
Ran, Nazım Hikmet et al. Poems of Nazim Hikmet. 2nd, Rev.Expanded ed., Persea Books, 2002.
—. Rubáiyát. 1st ed, Copper Beech Press, 1985.
—. The Moscow Symphony: And Other Poems. Translated by Taner Baybars, Rapp & Whiting : André Deutsch, 1970.
—. Things I Didn’t Know I Loved: Selected Poems of Nâzim Hikmet. Persea Books, 1975.
—., and Mutlu Konuk Blasing. Life’s Good, Brother. 1st ed, Persea Books, 2013.
—., and Randy Blasing. Human Landscapes from My Country: An Epic Novel in Verse. Persea Books, 2009.
—. The Day Before Tomorrow. Trans. by Taner Baybars, Carcanet Press, 1972
—. The Epic of Sheikh Bedreddin and Other Poems. Trans. by Randy Blasing and Mutlu
Konuk; New York: Persea Books, 1977
Selected Poems by Nazım Hikmet. Trans. Asoke Ghosh / Parichaya Prakashani, 1952
Poems by Nazım Hikmet; Translated by Ali Yunus. Published by Masses & Mainstream, New York, 1954
Selected Poems by Nazım Hikmet. trans. Taner Baybars, Grossman Publishers Cape Editions, 1967
Beyond the Walls, Selected Poems by Nazım Hikmet. Translated by Ruth Christie, Richard McKane and Talât Sait Halman. London: Anvil & Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 2002.
Reddy, Nilüfer Mizanoğlu (trans. by). Twenty Stories by Turkish Women Writers. Bloomington, Indiana University, Turkish Studies 8, 1988.
Rifat, Oktay. Voices of Memory: Selected Poems of; Oktay Rifat. Translated by Ruth Christie and Richard McKane, UK, Rockingham Press & Yapı Kredi Yayınları. 1993.
Silay, Kemal, editor. An Anthology of Turkish Literature. Repr, Cem Publ, 2006.
Soysal, Sevgi. Dawn. Translated by Maureen Freely, First Archipelago Books edition, Archipelago Books, 2022.
—. Noontime in Yenişehir. Translated by Amy Spangler, First English edition, Milet Publishing, 2016.
Sümer, Faruk, et al. The Book of Dede Korkut: A Turkish Epic. First pbk. Print, University of Texas Press, 1991.
Şafak, Elif. The Flea Palace. Translated by Müge Göçek. London & New York, Marion Boyars Publishers, 2004.
Taner, Haldun, and Geoffrey Lewis. Thickhead and Other Stories. Forest Books : Unesco, 1988.
Tanpınar, Ahmet Hamdi, et al. The Time Regulation Institute. Penguin Books, 2013.
Tecer, Ahmet Kutsi. The Neighbourhood. Translated by Nüvit Özdoğru, Turkish Centre of the International Theatre Institute, 1964.
Tekin, Latife. Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills. Translated by Ruth Christie, Marion Boyars, 2022.
Tekin, Latife, Saliha Paker, Mel Kenne, et al. Dear Shameless Death. Marion Boyars, 05.
—. Swords of Ice. Marion Boyars, 2007.
Temelkuran, Ece. Women Who Blow on Knots. Translated by Alexander Dawe, Parthian Books, 2017.
Temelkuran, Ece, and Zeynep Beler. Turkey: The Insane and the Melancholy. Zed Books, 2016.
Tunç, Ayfer, and Feyza Howell. The Highly Unreliable Account of the History of a Madhouse. Istros Books, 2020.
Ümit, Ahmet. A Memento for Istanbul. Translated by Rakesh Jobanputra, First English edition, Everest, 2011.
Uzuner, Buket. Istanbul Blues. Milet, 2014.
Uzuner, Buket, Pelin Arıner, et al. Mediterranean Waltz: 1998 Novel Prize of Istanbul University ; [Novel]. 5. Ed, Everest Publ, 2010.
Uzuner, Buket, Clare Frost, et al. The Adventures of the Misfit Defne Kaman: Water. Everest Yayınları, 2014.
Uzuner, Buket. The Sound of Fishsteps. Translated by Pelin Arıner, 5th edition, Everest, 2014.
—. Two Green Otters. Milet Publishing, 2016.
Uzuner, Buket, and Pelin Arıner. A Cup of Turkish Coffee = Bir Fincan Kahve. Milet Pub., 2001.
—. The Long White Cloud– Gallipoli. 2nd ed, Everest, 2007.
Uzuner, Buket, and Kenneth Dakan. I Am Istanbul. First edition, Dalkey Archive Press, 2013.
Walker, Barbara K., and Harold Berson. Watermelons, Walnuts, and the Wisdom of Allah, and Other Tales of the Hoca. Texas Tech University Press, 1991.
Walker, Barbara. The Courage of Kazan. New York. Thomas Crowell, 1970.
Walker, Barbara. The Art of the Turkish Tale, 1990.
Walker, Warren S., and Ahmet Edip Uysal, editors. Tales Alive in Turkey. Texas Tech University Press, 1990.
Yaşar Kemal. Anatolian Tales. trans. Thilda Kemal, London: Writers and Readers, 1983.
—. Birds Have Also Gone. Harvill Press, 2015.
—. Iron Earth, Copper Sky. 1st U.S. ed, W. Morrow, 1979.
—. The Legend of Ararat. Collins and Harvill Press, 1975.
—. They Burn the Thistles. Collins, Harvill Press, 1973.
—. The Wind from the Plain, Collins Harvill Press, 1997.
—. The Legend of the Thousand Bulls. trans. Thilda Kemal, Collins and Harvill Press, 1976.
—. The Undying Grass, trans. Thilda Kemal, Collins and Harvill Press, 1977.
—. The Lords of Akchasaz: Murder in the Ironsmithsʼ Market, Collins and Harvill Press, 1979.
—. The Saga of a Seagull, trans. Thilda Kemal, Collins and Harvill Press, 1981
—. The Sea-Crossed Fisherman, trans. Thilda Kemal, Collins and Harvill Press, 1985.
- To crush the Serpent, trans. Thilda Kemal, Collins and Harvill Press, 1991.
- Salman the Solitary. Thilda Kemal, Collins and Harvill Press, 1997.
Yaşar Kemal, and Edouard Roditi. Memed, My Hawk. New York Review Books, 2005.