{"id":270286,"date":"2009-04-13T14:22:38","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T14:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/04\/13\/turkish-lit-and-president-obama\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:24:08","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:24:08","slug":"turkish-lit-and-president-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/04\/13\/turkish-lit-and-president-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Lit and President Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/07\/obama-reading-watch\/\">Paper Cuts<\/a> wrote about this last week, but I think it&#8217;s cool enough to repeat . . . Last week, during a visit to Turkey, Pres. Obama was presented with a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamandrum.com\/bookshop\/index.php?main_page=pubs_product_book_info&amp;products_id=76499\"><em>A Mind at Peace<\/em><\/a> by Ahmet Hamd Tanpinar, which was recently translated into English by Erdag G\u00f6knar and published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archipelagobooks.org\/bk.php?id=37\">Archipelago Books.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From Paper Cuts:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>According to a spokesman for Archipelago Books, which recently published the first English translation of Tanpinar\u2019s novel, the leader of the Republican People\u2019s Party, Deniz Baykal, told the president: \u201cSo you just don\u2019t just understand Turkey through your ties with the governing and opposition parties in parliament, I\u2019m presenting you with these two works of literature. In these books you will find the nuances of our culture and identity.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll be sure to read them,\u201d Obama replied. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re planning on posting a review of <em>A Mind at Peace<\/em> later this month, and it&#8217;s a title that will likely pop up in the longlist discussions for the 2010 Best Translated Book Award . . . <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/subscribe\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/131.jpg\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paper Cuts wrote about this last week, but I think it&#8217;s cool enough to repeat . . . Last week, during a visit to Turkey, Pres. Obama was presented with a copy of A Mind at Peace by Ahmet Hamd Tanpinar, which was recently translated into English by Erdag G\u00f6knar and published by Archipelago Books. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[22226,22236,2176,22216,1836,12316,9026,1646],"class_list":["post-270286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-a-mind-at-peace","tag-ahmet-hamd-tanpinar","tag-archipelago-books","tag-barack-obama","tag-cwp","tag-erdag-goknar","tag-paper-cuts","tag-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324106,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270286\/revisions\/324106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}