The Hay Festival has agreed to programme Ece Temelkuran at this year’s festival.

			Event 166 -  Monday 4 June 2012, 2.30pm - Venue: Hay on Earth Stage
			Fictions – Detours. Gerbrand Bakker and Ece Temelkuran talk to Rosie Goldsmith.’

The Detour from the IMPAC prize-winning Dutch author of The Twin is a masterpiece set in rural Wales. He is joined by the star of Turkish literature, Ece Temelkuran - author of Deep Mountain and the Beirut novel Sounds of Bananas – for a special British Council event.  

Here are the details for Ece Temelkuran’s event:

http://www.hayfestival.com/p-4699-gerbrand-bakker-and-ece-temelkuran-talk-to-rosie-goldsmith.aspx

About Ece Temelkuran:

Born 1973 in Turkey, Ece Temelkuran is one of Turkey’s best-known journalists and political commentators.She has been a journalist since 1993 and has been writing political columns since 2000. Her investigative journalism books broach subjects that are highly controversial in Turkey, such as Kurdish and Armenian issues, the women's movement, and political prisoners. She has published widely and won numerous awards for her work, including the Pen for Peace Award and Turkish Journalist of the Year. Also she was a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. As a writer she published 12 books and two of her books; Deep Mountain and Book of the Edge have been also published in English. Her first novel Muz Sesleri (The Sound of Bananas) has recently been published in Arabic. Ece Temelkuran’s articles have been published in Nawaat, New Left Review, Le Monde Diplomatique, Global Voices Advocacy and the Guardian. She regularly writes for Al-Akhbar English (http://english.al-akhbar.com/author/ece-temelkuran) now.

About Hay Festival:

For 25 years Hay Festival has brought together writers from around the world to debate and share stories at its festival in the staggering beauty of the Welsh Borders. Hay celebrates great writing from poets and scientists, lyricists and comedians, novelists and environmentalists, and the power of great ideas to transform our way of thinking. We believe the exchange of views and meeting of minds that our festivals create inspire revelations personal, political and educational. Hay is, in Bill Clinton's phrase, 'The Woodstock of the mind'.

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