Sabri Gürses is a Turkish

Turkey

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 writer. He has published poetry

Poetry

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, novel

Novel

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s, and short stories

Short story

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. His best-known novel in Turkey is Sevişme ("Making Love"), which is a science fiction

Science fiction

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 novel about the way people use their bodies in a postmodern age. He has also written a science fiction trilogy, Boşvermişler (which may be translated as "The Ones Who Gave Up").

Gürses is also making translations from Russian and English to Turkish; among his translations are works by Mikhail Bakhtin

Mikhail Bakhtin

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, Yuri Lotman

Yuri Lotman

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, Andrei Bely

Andrei Bely

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, Werner Sombart

Werner Sombart

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, Joseph Campbell

Joseph Campbell

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, John Smolens, Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Allen Lethem is an American novelist, essayist and short story writer. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in 1994. It was followed by three more science fiction novels...

, Kim Stanley Robinson

Kim Stanley Robinson

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, Shusha Guppy, and Annie Proulx

E. Annie Proulx

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. He has made a complete translation of the famous revolutionary Sultan Galiev's writings from Russian to Turkish in 2006. This is the first complete translation of Galiev's Russian writings to another language.

As of 2005, he is publishing an online magazine/blog, Çeviribilim, focused on translation and its studies in Turkey.

External links

• Çeviribilim