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Yasemin Çongar

Biography

Yasemin Çongar

Yasemin Çongar is a journalist, editor and essayist as well as a translator. She is a cofounder and the general director of P24, a nonprofit platform for independent journalism in Istanbul. She is also the founder of K24, a Turkish literary review, and of the Istanbul Literature House. Çongar is the author of four books in Turkish.

Yasemin Çongar

Books by Yasemin Çongar

I Will Never See the World Again: The Memoir of an Imprisoned Writer
written by Ahmet Altan, translated by Yasemin Çongar - Memoir, Nonfiction

Confined in a cell four meters long, imprisoned on absurd, Kafkaesque charges, novelist Ahmet Altan is one of many writers persecuted by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s oppressive regime. In I WILL NEVER SEE THE WORLD AGAIN, written from his prison cell, Altan reflects upon his sentence, on a life whittled down to a courtyard covered by bars, and on the hope and solace a writer’s mind can provide, even in the darkest places.