PEN Translation Fund Grant recipients

[BlogSpy]

They've announced the 2010 PEN Translation Fund Grant Recipients.
Some interesting-sounding projects -- though it's noteworthy that of all of them only a single one appears to have a publisher at this point (and while that publisher has 'American' in its name it's headquartered in ... Cairo).

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[duygutekgul]

Yay for Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar!

[Eric]

Duygu says:

Yay for Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar!

Could you explain a bit more about your choice? "Yay" sounds a little like football. Surely literature is more than picking the winning team.

American PEN says:

Alexander Dawe for a collection of short stories by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (1901-1962), ?the most surprising writer of 20th-century Turkish literature.? Opulent and lyrical in tone, Tanpmar?s stories orchestrate Western and Eastern influences to speak of ordinary people torn by their allegiances to the past. (No publisher)

The stories may be excellent. But we need a few Turks to explain why, as the translation hasn't yet got a publisher.