Oğuz Atay (1934–1977) was a Turkish modernist writer. His experimental, linguistically complex novels earned him a reputation as one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century Turkish literature and a pioneer of the modern Turkish novel. He published two novels in the 1970s, The Disconnected and Dangerous Games, and wrote several other short stories and plays.
Ralph Hubbell is a translator of Turkish literature and writer. His fiction, essays, and translations have appeared in the Sun, Los Angeles Review of Books, Tin House, Asymptote, and elsewhere. He teaches at Loyola University Maryland and lives in Baltimore.
Merve Emre is the author or editor of several books, including Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America, The Ferrante Letters, The Personality Brokers, and The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway. She is a contributing writer at The New Yorker and her essays and criticism have appeared in The New York Review of Books, Harper's, The Atlantic, The London Review of Books and many other publications. She teaches at Wesleyan University.
