As İlkyaz, we work to introduce three young writers every issue.We translate these works, which are made up of a short stories or poems, into English and endeavour to introduce them to readers outside of Turkey. This exchange, we hope, will create new audiences for our writers in the world arena and introduce them to …

For our new issue we reached out to Ayfer Tunç. She prepared a reading list for young writers: Assuming that young writers have already read or have plans to read Turkish Classics and World Classics I am exluding my favorite writer from this list, such as: Max Frisch, Thomas Bernard, William Faulkner, W. G. Sebald. 1. …