Maureen Freely
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Maureen Freely is a U.S.
United States
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 journalist, novelist, translator and professor.

Biography

Born in Neptune, New Jersey
Neptune Township, New Jersey
-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 27,690 people, 10,907 households, and 6,805 families residing in the township. The population density was 3,366.8 people per square mile . There were 12,217 housing units at an average density of 1,485.4 per square mile...

, Freely grew up in Turkey
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 and now lives in England
England
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, where she lectures at the University of Warwick
University of Warwick
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 and is an occasional contributor to The Guardian
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 and The Independent
The Independent
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 newspapers. Among her novels is The Life of the Party, set in Turkey. She has also written The Other Rebecca, a contemporary version of Daphne du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier
Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning DBE was a British author and playwright.Many of her works have been adapted into films, including the novels Rebecca and Jamaica Inn and the short stories "The Birds" and "Don't Look Now". The first three were directed by Alfred Hitchcock.Her elder sister was...

's classic novel Rebecca
Rebecca (novel)
Rebecca is a novel by Daphne du Maurier. When Rebecca was published in 1938, du Maurier became – to her great surprise – one of the most popular authors of the day. Rebecca is considered to be one of her best works...

. Freely is also an occasional contributor to Cornucopia
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; a magazine about Turkey.

She is best known as the English translator of Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk
Ferit Orhan Pamuk , generally known simply as Orhan Pamuk, is a Turkish novelist. He is also the Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he teaches comparative literature and writing....

's recent novels. She works closely with Pamuk on these translations, because they often serve as the basis when his work is translated into other languages. They were both educated simultaneously at Robert College
Robert College
Robert College of Istanbul , is one of the most selective independent private high schools in Turkey. Robert College is a co-educational, boarding school with a wooded campus on the European side of Istanbul between the two bridges on the Bosphorus, with the Arnavutköy district to the east, and...

 in Istanbul
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, although they did not know each another at the time.

Freely translated and wrote an introduction to Fethiye Çetin
Fethiye Çetin
Fethiye Çetin is a Turkish lawyer, writer and human rights activist.She was born in the small town of Maden, to a Muslim family...

's memoir, My Grandmother.

She is the daughter of author John Freely
John Freely
John Freely is an American physicist, teacher, and author of popular travel and history books on Istanbul, Athens, Venice, Turkey, Greece and the Ottoman Empire. He is the father of writer Maureen Freely....

, and has a brother, Brendan.
Maureen Freely is a mother of four children and two step children.

Works

  • Enlightenment (2008)
  • The Other Rebecca (2000)
  • Mother's Helper (1982)
  • The Stork Club (1995)
  • What About Us (1996)
  • The Parent Trap (2002)
  • Under the Vulcania (1994)
  • The Life of the Party (1986)

Translations

For Orhan Pamuk:
  • The Black Book
  • Snow
    Snow (novel)
    Snow is a novel by Turkish author Orhan Pamuk. It was published in Turkish in 2002 and in English in 2004. The story encapsulates many of the political and cultural tensions of modern Turkey and successfully combines humor, social commentary, mysticism, and a deep sympathy with its characters.Kar...

  • Other Colors: Essays and a story
  • Istanbul: Memories and the City
  • The Museum of Innocence
    The Museum of Innocence
    The Museum of Innocence is a novel by Orhan Pamuk, Nobel-laureate Turkish novelist published on August 29, 2008. The book is a long and detailed account of the obsessive love that Kemal, a wealthy businessman, bears for Füsun, a lower class shop girl 12 years Kemal's junior, for over 30 years...



For Fethiye Çetin
Fethiye Çetin
Fethiye Çetin is a Turkish lawyer, writer and human rights activist.She was born in the small town of Maden, to a Muslim family...

  • My Grandmother
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