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Life Adorned with a Little Death: A Review of Journey to the Edge of Life by Tezer Özlü

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By Tezer Özlü, Maureen Freely
| Asymptote
Journey to the Edge of Life by Tezer Özlü, translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely, Transit Books, 2025 The Turkish writer Tezer Özlü lacks widespread recognition in the Anglosphere, but the tide of her English reception is turning thanks to the efforts of Maureen Freely, the translator of Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk. In her lifetime of 1943-86, Özlü was part of a moment in modern Turkish literary history in which secular women writers proliferated.
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Ben Philipps - Genealogy of Genocide

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By Maureen Freely
| Literary Review Verified
My Blue Peninsula, Maureen Freely’s fourth novel set in the Istanbul of her youth, follows Dora Giraud from childhood into late middle age as she uncovers and grapples with a viciously complex familial legacy. Dora’s heritage is part-Ottoman, part-Armenian, part-American: she is the descendent of both the perpetrators and the victims of genocide.
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Virtual Event: Maureen Freely, Aysegül Savas, and Merve Emre discuss

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By Tezer Özlü, Maureen Freely, Aysegul Savas
| thirdplacebooks.com
The Bell Jar meets Good Morning, Midnight, by one of Turkey’s most beloved writers. Third Place Books, Community Bookstore, and the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith are pleased to welcome critic Merve Emre, author Aysegül Savas, and translator Maureen Freely for a panel discussion of Cold Nights of Childhood by Tezer Özlü.
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