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Articles by Sevgi Soysal
Sevgi Soysal’s Liberation of the Mind
In 1971, the Turkish novelist Sevgi Soysal found herself in prison. The charges? Obscenity, communism, and losing her ID. The first two were beyond dispute: The candor of her fiction, alongside her (complicated) commitment to communism, challenged the country’s conservative mores. But the last charge remains apocryphal. During an argument between friends, she apparently bellowed the word yeter (“enough!”) so loudly that it drew the attention of the police.
A Friendly Face by Sevgi Soysal - Words Without Borders
Adana has three things in its favor: its sunny climate, its growing workforce, and its fertile soil. No hope, though, of seeing the sun set over the Çukurova Valley from Oya’s hotel window. From here, the city was one enormous construction site, each new building uglier than the last. Day after day, she watched them slowly rising. Night after night, she kept herself safe behind tightly closed curtains. Trying not to feel sorry for herself.
Turkish Tragedy Writ Small: Sevgi Soysal’s Dawn
Dawn by Sevgi Soysal, translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freeley, Archipelago Books, 2022 Writing in the 1990s, the Turkish literary critic Berna Moran praised Sevgi Soysal’s Dawn for its historical urgency, but noted that it would not be a novel that survived the test of time—that its themes would lose their relevance.
Engaging Books Series: Archipelago Books Selections
[Engaging Books is a monthly series featuring new and forthcoming books in Middle East Studies from publishers around the globe. Each installment highlights a trending topic in the MENA publishing world and includes excerpts from the selected volumes.This installment involves a selection from Archipelago Books.
Tante Rosa, Would-be Horse Acrobat
At the age of eleven, Tante Rosa read the following caption beneath a photo of Queen Victoria in cavalry garb, in the weekly family magazine You and Yours: “The eighteen-year-old Queen Victoria inspects the Royal Cavalry Troops.
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