By @burcukarahan.bsky.social “The stories open a world where desire is unpunished, humor softens daily troubles, and flirtation becomes a form of freedom.” Featured in the 2025 newsletter of the American Association of Turkic Languages #AATT www.aatturkic.org/newsletters
New piece in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social on a cheerful collection of Turkish erotica that offers insights into early 20th-century sexuality in Istanbul lareviewofbooks.org/article/ista...
“Men continually disappoint sexually active, restless women in these tales: they’re emotionally unavailable, hopelessly immature, and laughably listless.” Kaya Genç reviews "One Thousand and One Kisses": https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/istanbul-anonymous-erotic-stories-one-thousand-one-kisses/
Kaya Genç on "One Thousand and One Kisses": "These vivid glimpses of Istanbul are invaluable to all curious readers, depicting the mores of a bygone age, much as 'Sex and the City' did with New York City." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/istanbul-anonymous-erotic-stories-one-thousand-one-kisses/
Review highlight 📣 "Scenes of Life vividly portrays women’s sociability—friendship as crucial to women’s and girls’ sanity if not their survival in a world shaped by patriarchally honed expectations, discourses, and institutions." 👉🏼 sites.bu.edu/artichoke/re... #fatmaaliye
We love spotting our titles on university shelves. Can you find ours among the DLCL faculty books at Stanford? Here is your clue: 💋 @burcukarahan.bsky.social
Proud moment 🥹 Our very first book, Stories of Exile, makes it onto the same syllabus for the second time, and now has a review by translation scholar Cihan Ünlü. Links (or scan the image 👀):
tinyurl.com/3mk2v5av (academia edu)
tinyurl.com/bdcwvtr2 (journal of Middle Eastern Literatures)
Turkish Literature in Translation Reading Group celebrates its 6th year and 29th event with a new theme:”Why Translate Late-Ottoman Lit?”In Jan, İpek Şahinler will host @burcukarahan.bsky.social (Stanford) to discuss her recent translation 1001 Kisses.Register: literaturcapodcast.com/turkish-lite...
The introduction I wrote to The Women of Islam (1893) by Fatma Aliye (trans. Greg Key) is now live on our website 🛶translationattached.com/2026/01/16/int…
To order a copy 👉 amzn.to/4qvjQ6v
Turkish Literature in Translation Reading Group celebrates its 6th year and 29th event with a new theme:”Why Translate Late-Ottoman Lit?”In Jan, İpek Şahinler will host @burcukarahan.bsky.social (Stanford) to discuss her recent translation 1001 Kisses.Register: literaturcapodcast.com/turkish-lite...
@burcukarahan.bsky.social, translator of One Thousand and One Kisses, in conversation with @turkeybooktalk.bsky.social 🎙️
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2Dtu...
Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/b...
#historicalromance #ottomanerotica #burcukarahan #istanbul 💋
First episode of 2026 ✨✨
Burcu Karahan (@burcukarahan.bsky.social) on translating "One Thousand and One Kisses" (Translation Attached)
The book is a remarkable collection of erotic, humorous short stories published anonymously in Istanbul in 1923-24.
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turkeybooktalk.com/2026/01/06/b...
New episode drops tomorrow 📢👇
Burcu Karahan (@burcukarahan.bsky.social) on translating "One Thousand and One Kisses", a remarkable collection of erotic and humorous short stories published anonymously in Istanbul in 1923-24
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Dive into translator Burcu Karahan’s mental journey as she grapples with the words "kedi" and "merkez," and read a story from One Thousand and One Kisses👉
Now available Stanford’s Arcade 🐈 shc.stanford.edu/arcade/interve…
#historicalromance #eroticfiction #ottomanturkish #istanbul
We began the year with two titles and are ending it with five! If you love literature in translation and stories from around the world, or if it’s giving season and you’d like to support a small press, take a look at our list: translationattached.com/available-now/
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We’re happy to announce our latest release: The Women of Islam (1893) by Fatma Aliye, one of the first Ottoman women writers and intellectuals. Through imagined conversations with European women visiting Istanbul, Aliye challenges orientalist assumptions head-on. To order a copy 👉 amzn.to/3YuAIOa
📢Database updated! Our website hosts a growing repository of Turkish literature in English translation. Bookmark it as your go-to reference or dive in to discover your next read! 👉 translationattached.com/database/ #Database #translationattached #turkishliteratureintranslation
An erotic ghost story? What a concept 👻 Find it in One Thousand and One Kisses (tr. @burcukarahan.bsky.social)! A hauntingly sultry story, where desire lingers beyond the grave, or so it seems 🎃 To read the story 👉 translationattached.com/2024/10/30/t...
Your Halloween spirit craving a haunted house tale? 🎃
Here’s one from Nezihe Muhiddin (1898–1958), written in the 1930s, where nothing is as it seems🏚️ translationattached.com/from-the-works… #thehauntedhouse #Halloween #nezihemuhiddin #turkishliteratureintranslation
Bin Bir Buse serisi İngilizceye çevrildi - Burcu Karahan: "Osmanlı kadınları, bu metinlerde kadına verilen özgürlük gücünü memnuniyetle karşıladı"
Türkçe adıyla Binbir Buse, @burcukarahan.bsky.social çevirisiyle yayınevimizdn çıktı🎉Kitapta original baskıda yer alan karikatürlere&tatlı mı tatlı çizimlere de yer verdik.Ayrıca kitabın tarihsel arkaplanına ışık tutan,çevirmenin yazdığı bir giriş yazısı da var.Kapak resmi @aliyaycioglu.bsky.social
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📯📯 One Thousand and One Kisses 💋 is now out from @tra-attached.bsky.social!
💫 Heartfelt thanks to @aliyaycioglu.bsky.social for 🎨 cover art; and Louis de Bernieres, @ratherserious.bsky.social, and @whitejenny.bsky.social for their generous support.
Order here 👉 translationattached.com/available-now/
New Book Alert 📣 One Thousand and One Kisses is out now! Written by anonymous authors in 1920s&translated by @burcukarahan.bsky.social, these cheeky tales promise laughter, mischief, and the occasional blush💋 Cover art by @aliyaycioglu.bsky.social
To order 👉🏼 translationattached.com/available-now/
🎙️ Burcu Karahan @burcukarahan.bsky.social chats with Suzie Ferguson of Ottoman History Podcast about how erotic fiction transformed from manuscript to print culture in the Ottoman Empire👀 Plus, the story behind One Thousand and One Kisses - out soon! 📖 #1001kisses 💋 open.spotify.com/episode/4GV7...
Stories of Exile is a vivid slice of Middle Eastern life in the early 20th century told through the eyes of an educated Ottoman-Turkish writer, Refik Halid Karay. At a time of upheaval, then as now, Lebanon to Palestine comes alive in these striking stories.
📖 Grab your copy 👉 amzn.to/3V5dc8V
While translating "One Thousand and One Kisses," I found myself deep in euphemisms and literary sleuthing—merkez مركز, it turns out, is much more than just “center.” #seviyorummerkez
"The word kedi (cat) in Turkish is not commonly used as a euphemism for female genitalia, as it is in French (chatte) or English (pussy). Yet in this story, that euphemism was clearly intended."
Read more 😽👉🏼 translationattached.com/2025/08/27/m...
