Turkish literary works translated to 51 languages

ANKARA (A.A) – December 27, 2011 – Almost 1,000 Turkish literary works have been translated into 51 languages by the end of 2011, executives said on Tuesday. A total of 985 Turkish literary works have been translated into 51 languages in last six years and been published in 40 countries within the scope of a project to promote Turkish literature in the world. The languages the works were translated are Albanian, Bosnian, Greek, Russian, Polish, Romanian, Hungarian, Georgian, Urdu language, Chinese, Korean, Czech language, Tamil language, Hebrew, Japanese, Catalan language, Armenian, Finnish and Malayalam language. "The Masnavi" or "Masnavi-I Ma'navi", written in Persian by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, and poet Mehmet Akif Ersoy's "Safahat" are the main translated works. Books of novelists Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, Peyami Safa, Halide Edip Adivar, Sait Faik Abasiyanik, Perihan Magden, Orhan Pamuk, Ahmet Umit, Buket Uzuner, Hilmi Yavuz, Talat S. Halman, Adalet Agaoglu, Orhan Kemal, Elif Safak, Falih Rifki Atay, Aziz Nesin, Can Dundar, Sabahattin Ali and Zulfu Livaneli were some of the translated works.