Copyright
Hülya ArslanPublished On
2024-04-03Page Range
pp. 499–508Language
- English
Print Length
10 pages
Traces of the Influence of Russian Literary Translations on Turkish Literature of the 1900s
Chapter of: Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context(pp. 499–508)
When Turkey became a republic in 1923, modernist and progressive policies gained momentum in Turkish society, stimulating the creation of a new cultural repertoire inclusive of global literature in translation. Turkish policymakers hoped that other nations’ literatures would contribute to updating and refreshing Turkish culture and society. Although the translation activities carried out systematically for this purpose under the auspices of Turkey’s newly founded, state-run Translation Bureau in the 1940s were short-lived, their traces in Turkish literature have proved significant and lasting. This essay will scrutinize the lives and contributions of those Turkish translators employed by the Bureau, as well as offering an overview of twentieth-century Turkish translations of Russian literature.
Contributors
Hülya Arslan
(author)Teacher at the Department of Russian Language and Literature at Yeditepe University
Hülya Arslan graduated from the Department of Russian Language and Literature of Ankara University in 1988. She completed her master’s degree at the Pushkin State Language Institute and her doctorate at Moscow State University. At present, she teaches at Yeditepe University, Department of Russian Language and Literature. Hülya has translated Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago (Yapikredi Yayinlari, 2014) and A Story (Yapikredi Yayinlari, 2020), as well as Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment (Kolektif Kitap, 2018) into Turkish.