The two-volume “Topkapı Palace” book, which features all the details of Istanbul’s Topkapı Palace, has been introduced. Güller Karahüseyin, Head of the National Palaces Museology and Promotion Department, said that the book consists of 29 articles written by well-known names in the
With the initiatives of Türkiye’s Prague Ambassador Egemen Bağış, legendary Turkish poet Nazım Hikmet’s life and photographs, taken in 1956 in Prague, the capital of Czechoslovakia at the time, and found in the Prague National Theater archives, have been made into a
For a vast number of book writers, artificial intelligence is a threat to their livelihood and the very idea of creativity, according to AP. More than 10,000 of them endorsed an open letter from the Authors Guild this summer, urging AI companies
Salt presents a new e-publication, Montage or Synthesis: Texts of Özer Kabaş, as part of the institution’s ongoing research focusing on art in Turkey from the 1950s to the present. Gathering a selection of texts written by the artist, educator, and writer Özer
Tributes have been paid to US Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy, who has died at the age of 89. McCarthy’s novels included The Road and No Country for Old Men, both of which were turned into successful films. Fellow author Stephen King called
Virginia Woolf’s personal copy of her debut novel, The Voyage Out, digitised for the first time. The book was rediscovered in 2021, having mistakenly been housed in the science section of the University of Sydney library for 25 years. It is the
During the first week of March, we held meetings with publishers and agencies from all over the world for the Istanbul Fellowship Program, trying to spread Turkish literature to the world while introducing new books to our language. We bustled between tables