Farewell: A Mansion in Occupied Istanbul (Turkish Literature)
Ayşe Kulin was born in Istanbul in 1941. A fiction writer and essayist, Kulin has been awarded the Haldun Taner Short Story Award, the Sait Faik Story Prize, and has twice been named writer of the year by the Istanbul Communication Faculty. In 2011, Farewell: A Mansion in Occupied Istanbul was longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.Born in Salt Lake City in 1964, Kenneth J. Dakan is a free-lance translator and voice-over artist whose published works of fiction and non-fiction include Ayşe Kulin’s Farewell: A Mansion in Occupied Istanbul, Ece Temelkuran’s Deep Mountain: Across the Turkish-Armenian Divide, Perihan Mağden’s Escape, and Mehmet Murat Somer’s The Prophet Murders, The Kiss Murder, and The Gigolo Murder.  In 2011 and 2012 Dakan participated in theCunda Workshop for Translators of Turkish Literature.