Ferit Edgü, a beloved writer and publisher of Turkish literature, has died at the age of 88. A novella and a collection of short stories by Edgü, The Wounded Age and Eastern Tales (trans. Aron Aji), was published in a single volume by NYRB Classics in 2023 and was named a finalist for the EBRD Literature Prize. Maya Jaggi, a judge for the prize, said of the volume, “The Wounded Age and Eastern Tales ... bear witness with poetry and horror to a nightmarish history of state violence in eastern Türkiye and an often forgotten people.”
To read more about Edgü and his life and career, you can read his obituary in Türkiye’s Hürriyet Daily News.