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İlkyaz’s New Issue Is Lıve!
İlkyaz’s new works are now live and can be found below and throughout the postings on the English homepage! As İlkyaz, we work to introduce three young writers every month. We translate these works, which are be made up of a short stories or poems, into English and endeavour to introduce them to readers outside of …
Zülfü Livaneli
We reached out to Zülfü Livaneli, an internationally known writer and musician. He prepared a reading list for young writers. Enjoy! “Literature is based on a master-apprentice relationship and to write well, reading the masterpieces are a must. No one creates sometgin from zero. The doors which open to the future pass from tradition. A …
The real Lord of the Flıes: what happened when sıx boys were shıpwrecked for 15 months
When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965, it turned out very differently from William Golding’s bestseller, writes Rutger Bregman Rutger Bregman, The Guardian, Saturday 9 May 2020 @rcbregman A still from the 1963 film of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Photograph: Ronald Grant For centuries western culture has been …
2 poems by Young Wrıter Hanna Komar from Belarusıan PEN
AFTERWARDS the bird flies out, the nestling watches her from its nest: the swing of her wings, the turn of her tail, the air yielding under them. horizon is tilted, the world around gets tightened in an egg. if she doesn’t come back the shell will be its home. BOUNDED Bounded by a semolina lump, …
Mary Shelley on the Courage to Speak Up Against Injustice and the Power of Words in Revising the World
“Words have more power than any one can guess; it is by words that the world’s great fight, now in these civilized times, is carried on.” BY MARIA POPOVA “To sin by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards out of men*,” the poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox wrote in her 1914 anthem against silence — a …
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – The Danger Of A Single Story (TED Talk)
Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice — and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · Novelist Inspired by Nigerian history and tragedies all but …
