Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar (1901-1962) is considered one of the most significant Turkish novelists of the twentieth century. Also a poet, short-story writer, essayist, literary historian, and professor, he created a unique cultural universe in his work, combining a European literary voice with the Ottoman sensibilities of the Near East.
Maureen Freely (translator) is the principal translator of Orhan Pamuk, the Nobel Prize–winning Turkish novelist. She lives in England.
Alexander Dawe (translator) is an American translator of French and Turkish. He lives in Istanbul.
Pankaj Mishra (introducer) is an award-winning novelist and essayist whose writing appears frequently in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and the London Review of Books. He was born in North India and now lives in London.
