Translation Workshop, Turkey
Yaprak Oz, photographed by Anahit Hayrapetyan
21st - 27th June,
Buyukada Island, Turkey
Word Express writers and translators Gokcenur Celebioglu, Baris Mustecaplioglu, Yaprak Oz, Igor Isakovski, Milan Dobricic Nurduran Duman Efe Duyan and Claudiu Komartin are meeting on the island of Buyukada in Turkey to work on translations of the work of authors involved in the project. We look forward to publishing some of these translations in the autumn. This workshop is organised by Delta Publications.
You can read some samples of the work of these and other Word Express writers on the participants pages
News
Transcript - the Macedonia Issue
Word Express writers Aleksandra Dimitrova, Elizabeta Bakovska and Jovica
Ivanovski feature in Literature Across Frontiers's trilingual review of
writing in translation.
Sha'ar International Poetry Festival
18th - 24th October 2010
poets
Netalie Braun (Israel),
Gokçenur Çelebioğlu (Turkey),
Ivan Hristov(Bulgaria),
Ana Ristovic (Serbia) and
Anat Zekharia (Israel) to collaborate and perform in Tel Aviv.
Found in Translation
"I'm happy you didn't take me for another germ"
Two poems by Karen Karslyan
"when bees burn they become soft like red velvet, brittle as the naked
pupils of blue eyes"
Poems by Vassilis Amanatidis