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Migration, exile, memory, identity : A reading and discussion with Turkish-German Writer Zafer Şenocak

University of British Columbia. Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies; Centre for Migration Studies

Berlin-based writer Zafer Şenocak will read from his new bilingual poetry collection First Light (Turkish and English). Readers will find explorations of migration, exile, memory, identity, and the fine line between reason and belief — themes that have appeared throughout his career as a leading Turkish-German intellectual, but which gain new shades of meaning as he articulates them in his first language. Some poems reference mystical Islam — exploring both hidden and evident aspects of the world, the real and the dream-like — as well as Turkish poetic traditions. These poems movingly give voice to what his translator Kristin Dickinson calls “moments of cross-cultural contact and entanglement.”

eng

2025-07-11

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/91555

Unreviewed

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/