Turkish Literature and Trauma

Turkish Literature and Trauma
Date
Mon January 27th 2020, 12:00pm
Location
Bldg. 260, Room 252

Speaker(s): Müge İplikçi

 Müge İplikçi is a Turkish academic and writer. She started her literary career as a short story writer and received prestigious Yaşar Nabi Nayır and Haldun Taner prizes for her short story collections. Later on she published novels and children's books. Her stories and novels have been translated into many languages. She was a member of Writers in Prison Committee (WIPC) of the Turkish PEN Centre for three years and served as the chairperson of the PEN Turkish Women Writers Committee. İplikçi holds two Master's Degrees from Istanbul University's Department of Women Studies and Ohio State University's Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. Currently, she works as a parttime instructor at the Faculty of Communication and Media, Istanbul Bilgi University and as a program maker for Medyascope, an independent platform that delivers original and uncensored audiovisual journalistic content in Turkey. 

In light of her most recent novel about the 2015 Ankara bombings, i.e., "Ankara massacre," Sil Baştan (All Over Again) (May 2019), İplikçi will discuss literature’s impact and its healing role to narrate trauma, although it was once believed that trauma could not be narrated or told.