Cemal Ener
Mehmet Cemal Ener (* 1959 in Adana , Turkey ) is a Turkish editor and literary translator into Turkish.
Live and act
Ener attended the Austrian St. Georgs College in Istanbul , Turkey from 1970 to 1978 . He then studied philosophy and journalism in Vienna until 1984 . In 1986 he returned to Istanbul and worked as a tour guide from 1987 to 1993 . Since 1991 he has been working as a freelance translator; his focus is on the translation of literary and philosophical works from German into Turkish. He is currently working as an editor and translator mainly for the Turkish publishing house Kanat Kitap in Istanbul.
Ener has translated important works of world literature into Turkish , including book publications by Leo Perutz , Bernhard Schlink , Peter Handke and Daniel Kehlmann ; by Walter Benjamin , Gerhard Roth and Franz Kafka ; as well as by Samuel Beckett , Michel Foucault and Karl Kraus . He is currently working on a Turkish edition of Robert Walser's works . Ener also translates Turkish literature into German; In 2007 he was supported by the S. Fischer Foundation with a work stay at the Literary Colloquium in Berlin .
Ener lives and works in Istanbul.
Translations into Turkish (selection)
- Michel Foucault: Dostluğa Dair . Telos Yayýnlarý, Istanbul 1992, ISBN 975-7638-06-4 .
- Daniel Kehlmann: Ben ve Kaminski . Can Yayýnlarý, Istanbul 2007, ISBN 978-975-07-0862-6 .
- Leo Perutz: Kiyamet Günü Ustasi . Kanat, Istanbul 2008, ISBN 978-975-8859-73-3 .
- Franz Kafka: Babaya Mektup . Can Yayýnlarý, Istanbul 2008, ISBN 978-975-07-0955-5 .
Web links
- Information about Cemal Ener in the translator's colloquium
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cemal Ener ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.uebersetzercolloquium.de (accessed January 29, 2009).
- ↑ a b “Authors and Translators in the House 2007”> Cemal Ener (Istanbul) ; Article on the website of the Literary Colloquium Berlin from 2008 (accessed January 29, 2009).
- ↑ Information about Cemal Ener on the website of the Turkish publisher Kanat Kitap , Istanbul (accessed January 29, 2009).
- ↑ “'Steps' Scholarship Holders 2007/08” ; Article on the website of the Literary Colloquium Berlin from 2008 (accessed January 29, 2009).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ener, Cemal |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ener, Cemal Memet |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish editor and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Adana |