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Burhan Sönmez: Istanbul, Istanbul
Continuing our month-long season to celebrate the English PEN centenary, World Book Club talks to multi-award-winning Turkish-Kurdish writer and activist Burhan Sönmez about his unforgettable novel Istanbul, Istanbul.
At once powerfully political and intensely personal, Istanbul, Istanbul is the st…
Jacob Collier and Lizzy McAlpine, Abdul Shayek and Ishy Din, Threats to writers
Jacob Collier has won a Grammy Award for each of his first four albums. In fact, he has five Grammys altogether. He’s back home in London after his recent UK tour and has just brought out a new single, Never Gonna Be Alone. Jacob and his musical collaborators Lizzy McAlpine and Victoria Canal perfo…
Salman Rushdie: Is free speech under attack?
This week, as the world has been reacting to the shocking news of the attack on the author Sir Salman Rushdie at a book event in New York State, The Cultural Frontline asks what this attack means for the world of writers and publishing and what it says about freedom of expression in literature toda…
Burhan Sönmez: 'the Kurdish language is my home'
Written in Kurmanji Kurdish, 'Lovers of Franz K.' by award-winning novelist and PEN International President Burhan Sönmez brings the long denied Kurdish culture and language alive. The author talks to journalist and poet Matt Broomfield in a recent Medya News podcast:
‘Each of us has a song’
Burhan Sönmez, now the president of PEN International, was a rising human rights lawyer in Turkey. A brutal assault nearly killed him – and propelled him to a life in literature.
Psyche audio helps you to better understand yourself and others through expert guides, provocative ideas and personal li…
Lovers of Franz K. Burhan Sönmez with Kirsty Gunn novelist BookBlast® Book Club
Book Club Lovers of Franz K. Burhan Sönmez with Kirsty Gunn, novelist
Lovers of Franz K. by Burhan Sönmez appears to be focused on the fate of Ferdy Kaplan who is arrested in 1968 West Berlin for killing a twenty-year-old student at a bus stop, and seriously injuring an elderly man who turns out t…
Burhan Sönmez: Kurdish Voices and the Power of Language
In Episode 2, one of our hosts, Dr. Lyla June Johnston (Diné/Tsétsêhéstâhese), speaks with Burhan Sönmez about the revitalization of the Kurdish language.
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Episode 7: Resurrecting Kafka, Resisting Borders - a talk with Burhan Sönmez
This conversation took place on April 18, 2025, over Zoom during the 5th year and 26th session of the Turkish Literature in Translation Reading Group.
I spoke to Burhan Sönmez, the current President of PEN International, about his novel Lovers of Franz K (Other Press, 2025), originally written and …
Fiona Mozley on Lovers of Franz K. by Burhan Sönmez, tr. Sami Hêzil
Can you get through a discussion about Kafka without using the word Kafkaesque?
No.
It’s my fault.
I thought we’d nailed it, and my wonderful guest for this episode, the Booker-shortlisted author Fiona Mozley, lasted out the whole half hour.
Listening back, I did not.
I could have perhaps edited it…
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