Sema Kaygusuz

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Sema Kaygusuz (born August 29, 1972, in Samsun, Turkey) [1] is a novelist, playwright, essayist, and short story writer from Turkey. [2] [3] [4] [5] Her work has been translated into English, Italian, German, French, Swedish, and Norwegian. She won a Yunus Nadi Award in 2016 for her novel Laughter of the Barbarian. Among other accolades, she is a recipient of the Cevdet-Kudret-Literature Award, the France-Turquie Literary Award, and was named laureate of the German Friedrich Rückert Prize. [6] [7] [8] The English translation of her novel Yüzünde Bir Yer (Every Fire You Tend) won both the TA First Translation Prize and an English PEN Award. [9] She currently resides in Istanbul. [10]

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As a screenwriter, she co-wrote the screenplay for the 2008 film Pandora's Box (Turkish: Pandora'nın Kutusu) with director Yeşim Ustaoğlu. [11]

Selected works

In Turkish

Translated works

See also

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  12. Ce lieu sur ton visage : roman. OCLC   991289781 . Retrieved 6 August 2021 via WorldCat.
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