Contributor

Saliha Paker

Contributor

Saliha Paker

Saliha Paker is Professor of Translation Studies at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, and Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham. She received her BA and Ph.D. in English and Classics at Istanbul University....

Her current research is focused on Ottoman/Turkish translation history; her work in English includes an edited volume, Translations: (Re)shaping of Literature and Culture, various essays in international publications, and translations of modern Turkish literature such as Latife Tekin's Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills (with Ruth Christie).

From “Dear Shameless Death”

By Latife Tekin

But in that moment of pure amazement, while some blew prayers to the right and left or panicked and almost wet their pants, a few risked touching the bus gingerly.

Translated from Turkish by Saliha Paker & Mel Kenne

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Saliha Paker

Saliha Paker

Articles by Saliha Paker

From “Dear Shameless Death”