Menek\u015fe Toprak is a Turkish writer, translator and radio journalist. She lives in Istanbul and Berlin. Toprak writes stories and novels in Turkish, but also enjoys reading in German. Her book “A\u011f\u0131t\u0131n Sonu,” which won the prestigious Duygu Asena Novel Prize, was published under the title “The Story of Woman, Men and Lost Fairy Tales” by Berlin-based Orlanda Verlag. Her novel “Ar\u0131 F\u0131s\u0131lt\u0131lar\u0131 (roughly: The Whispering of Bees) was awarded the Literature Prize of Ankara University in 2020. Her most recent publication is the novel “D\u00e9j\u00e0-vu”, for which she also received the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe’s working scholarship for literature in non-German.<\/p>\n
Her short story “Valizdeki Mektup” (The Letter in the Suitcase) was published in 2007, “Hangi Dildedir A\u015fk” (In Which Language is Love) in 2009, and her debut novel “Temmuz \u00c7ocuklar\u0131” (Julikinder) in 2011. the novel “A\u011f\u0131t\u0131n Sonu” (The End of the Lament) was published in 2014. As a literary translator, she has translated works by Arseni Tarkovski, Zafer \u015eenocak, Ralf Thenior and others into Turkish. She opened up “Turkish Narratives of the 20th Century” (2008) to the German-speaking world for an anthology published by Suhrkamp Verlag. Her stories have also been translated into English and French. In 2015, her debut novel “Temmuz \u00c7ocuklar\u0131” was published in Italy.<\/p>\n
Valizdeki Mektup. Short stories.\u00a0Yap\u0131 Kredi Yay\u0131nlar\u0131, Istanbul 2007.<\/p>\n
Hangi Dildedir A\u015fk. Short stories. Yap\u0131 Kredi Yay\u0131nlar\u0131, Istanbul 2009.<\/p>\n
Temmuz \u00c7ocuklar. Novel. Yap\u0131 Kredi Yay\u0131nlar\u0131, Istanbul 2011.<\/p>\n
A\u011f\u0131t\u0131n Sonu. Novel. \u0130leti\u015fim Yay\u0131nlar\u0131, Istanbul 2014.<\/p>\n
Ar\u0131 F\u0131s\u0131lt\u0131lar\u0131. Novel. \u0130leti\u015fim Yay\u0131nlar\u0131, Istanbul 2018.<\/em><\/p>\n Dejavu. Novel. Do\u011fan Kitap, Istanbul 2022.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Menek\u015fe Toprak is a Turkish writer, translator and radio journalist. She lives in Istanbul and Berlin. Toprak writes stories and novels in Turkish, but also enjoys reading in German. Her book “A\u011f\u0131t\u0131n Sonu,” which won the prestigious Duygu Asena Novel Prize, was published under the title “The Story of Woman, Men and Lost Fairy Tales” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":18781,"template":"","categories":[7],"class_list":["post-2250","eventkrake_artist","type-eventkrake_artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-author"],"yoast_head":"\n