Saliha Paker
Saliha Paker is a literary translator and Professor of Translation Studies who retired in 2008 from Boğaziçi University, where she still teaches a course in the PhD Programme. She founded the Cunda International Workshop for Translators of Turkish Literature in 2006 under the sponsorship of the Turkish Ministry of Culture. Her translations include three novels by Latife Tekin, Berji Kristin Tales from the Garbage Hills (with Ruth Christie), Dear Shameless Death and Swords of Ice (with Mel Kenne), all published by Marion Boyars (1993, 2001, 2007), London/New York. She edited Ash Divan, Selected Poems of Enis Batur, brought out in 2006 by Talisman House, New Jersey, which will also be publishing What Have You Carried Over? Selected Works of Gülten Akın, co-edited with Mel Kenne.