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KEMAL BÄ°LBAÅžAR
Contemporary Turkish Short-story and Novel Writer
Three Short Stories
The lime pit digger (Tekne Kazıntısı in Turkish)
from Irgatların Ofkesi, publish in1971, last edition 2015
translated by Esin Bilbasar Rey
Translator's note : The laborer speaks in Yörük dialect which was difficult to translate. A simple English was chosen instead of a literal, direct translation which may have made the text unintelligible for the English speaking reader although in so doing it lost its oriental flavor..
Sale of Saltanat
Sale of Saltanat was first published in Turk Edebiyatcilar Birligi Yilligi In 1962. It was specially translated for SSI by the author's daughter. Esin Bilbasar.
Click on the title of the short story to read it
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