Ahmet Altan is one of Turkey's most significant authors and journalists. Born in 1950, Ahmet graduated from the Economics Department of Istanbul University. At 24, he became a journalist, working in many positions, from reporter to editor-in-chief. His first novel, Four Seasons of Autumn, published when he was 27, won the Grand Award of the Akademi Publishing House. His second novel Trace on the Water, in 1985, was banned due to obscenity. Dangerous Tales, 1996, became a bestseller and sold more than 200,000 copies. Like a Sword Wound, 1998, won the Yunus Nadi Novel Prize, its sales surpassing 500,000 copies. In 2009, along with Roberto Saviano, he was awarded the prestigious 'Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media' by the Media Foundation of the Sparkasse Leipzig. In 2011, he received the International Hrant Dink Award. His novels have been translated into many languages.
Alexander Dawe was born in New York and now lives and works in Istanbul. He received a PEN translation fund to translate the collected short stories of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar. He worked with Maureen Freely on a new translation of Tanpinar's novel The Time Regulation Institute (published by Penguin in the US).
"A deeply compelling and immersive narrative about love, desire, loneliness and landscape. Ahmet Altan is one of the foremost voices in Turkish literature and has much to say to the world" (ELIF SHAFAK)
"Endgame is a rare beast: a mystery adventure in the age of internet, of such intimately written humanity that it transcends genre, time and place" (DBC PIERRE)
"An impassioned, captivating dance, a waltz between death and desire that does not release you for even a single moment" (PHILIPPE SANDS)
"Endgame is a complex and immensely readable book - insightful, disturbing, irritating and riveting" (ANDREA WULF)
"Extraordinary, delicious, wise, I admire Ahmet Altan's novels" (LINN ULLMAN) --Elif Shafak
"His novels and nonfiction have sold millions of copies" (THE NATIONAL) --The National
"Great author, great literature: Ahmet Altan reopens the wounds of love and history" (LE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUE) --Le Monde Diplomatique
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