Güleç did not speculate as to who might translate the work.Īli’s work will also be published in Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Georgian, according to ONK. “Its profound historical and political content, as well as being a romance novel, easily grasps young readers,” Güleç said. ,” said Güleç, referring to the book’s renewed popularityĪccording to the book’s publishing rights owner in Turkey, YKY Publishing, the company has published almost 1 million copies of the book since 1998. since the Frankfurt Bookįair last October and finalized the new publishing agreement in March.īook’s latest success in Turkey was an important detail for them Had been engaged in talks with Penguin U.K. Speaking about the issue, ONK Managing Director Meriç Güleç, said they “Kürk Mantolu Madonna” has already been published in German by Dorlemann and has seen four print editions in Russian, Croatian, Arabic and Albanian. His revived work, “The Fur-Coated Madonna,” centers on a post-World War I love story between a Turkish student and a German singer in Berlin. Rumors flourished later that his killer was a member of the national security service. A critic of the then-government, he was murdered in 1948 by an unknown assailant in mysterious circumstances. for the book.Ī left-wing poet, writer and journalist, Ali was born in 1907. The prominent author’s 1943 book, “Kürk Mantolu Madonna” (The Fur-Coated Madonna) will be published in English at the beginning of 2016, more than 70 years after its debut in Turkish.Ī deal has been struck between Turkish copyright agency ONK and publishers Penguin U.K. Sabahattin Ali poses with his wife Aliye Ali and daughter Filiz Ali.Ī work by one of modern Turkish literature’s most important writers, Sabahattin Ali, will be translated into English for the first time.

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