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"Boundary-pushing contemporary artist and author Cemile Şahin joins East Bristol Books for a screening of her short film ‘Spring’ and a discussion of newly translated work ‘All Dogs Die’: a sharply inventive novel examining state control in 21st century Turkey through the lens of trauma, displacement, and memory."
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A event on Wednesday 22nd January. The event starts at 19:00.
*Ticket (£6) includes refreshments & 10% off the author's book. 20 capacity, seated & accessible. Some tickets are allocated as PWYC starting at £0.00: please select this option if you need to do so*
EBB is excited to host Kurdish Alevi artist and writer Cemile Şahin discussing her recently translated book *All Dogs Die* (MTO Press) with translator of Turkish poetry Caroline Stockford, followed by a screening of Şahin's short film *Spring* (43 minutes).
How do you live with violence and trauma? How do you cope with the threat of them recurring? These are among the urgent questions posed by Cemile Şahin's second novel, and the first to be translated into English, *All Dogs Die*—a haunting and brilliant tale of people on the edge. *All Dogs Die* is narrated in nine episodes by different characters who all live exiled in the same apartment building in Turkey. Each character lives with the memory and fear of the violence and torture inflicted upon them by the secret police or by the army and most of them have been driven from their homes in vicious acts of terror.
*All Dogs Die* stands as an unflinching representation of both actual geopolitical realities, and the enduring human suffering wrought by state-sponsored terror that extends far beyond any one place and time. Each episode tells of a harrowing past and an indeterminate present and Ayça Türkoğlu’s vivid and superb translation serves to bear witness to the heartbreaking and desperate narratives of each character, as they try to put into words their ineffably brutal struggle.
A collection of impressive, drastic stories from the war in Turkey the likes of which have never been read before in German literature. - Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
The determination, clarity and rigour in Cemile Şahin's tone is a force to be reckoned with. - Julia Encke
The short film ‘Spring,’ first part of her new series ‘Four Ballads for my Father’ (2022), is a layered and incisive film that comments on police violence, militarism, and the instrumentalization of natural resources. It focuses on the social effects of the Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP), a huge infrastructure programme on the rivers Euphrates and Tigris.
Cemile Şahin is a Kurdish Alevi author and artist. Her work embraces film, photography, sculpture, installation and the literary novel. She takes a particular interest in how history is written, how pictures are used for manipulative ends, and how state power is exercised and portrayed. She has published two novels *Taxi* (2019) and “Alle Hunde Sterben” [All Dogs Die] (2020).
Caroline Stockford is a translator of Turkish poetry and literature into English and Welsh. She writes and performs poetry in English and Turkish and holds a Masters’ Degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University in the History of the Turkish Language. She has translated the poetry of classic and contemporary Turkish poets at the Cunda International Workshop for Translators of Turkish Literature for the past three years and is currently translating two Turkish novels and co-translating the poetry of küçük İskender into Welsh.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)
EBB is excited to host Kurdish Alevi artist and writer Cemile Şahin discussing her recently translated book *All Dogs Die* (MTO Press) with translator of Turkish poetry Caroline Stockford, followed by a screening of Şahin's short film *Spring* (43 minutes).
How do you live with violence and trauma? How do you cope with the threat of them recurring? These are among the urgent questions posed by Cemile Şahin's second novel, and the first to be translated into English, *All Dogs Die*—a haunting and brilliant tale of people on the edge. *All Dogs Die* is narrated in nine episodes by different characters who all live exiled in the same apartment building in Turkey. Each character lives with the memory and fear of the violence and torture inflicted upon them by the secret police or by the army and most of them have been driven from their homes in vicious acts of terror.
*All Dogs Die* stands as an unflinching representation of both actual geopolitical realities, and the enduring human suffering wrought by state-sponsored terror that extends far beyond any one place and time. Each episode tells of a harrowing past and an indeterminate present and Ayça Türkoğlu’s vivid and superb translation serves to bear witness to the heartbreaking and desperate narratives of each character, as they try to put into words their ineffably brutal struggle.
A collection of impressive, drastic stories from the war in Turkey the likes of which have never been read before in German literature. - Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
The determination, clarity and rigour in Cemile Şahin's tone is a force to be reckoned with. - Julia Encke
The short film ‘Spring,’ first part of her new series ‘Four Ballads for my Father’ (2022), is a layered and incisive film that comments on police violence, militarism, and the instrumentalization of natural resources. It focuses on the social effects of the Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP), a huge infrastructure programme on the rivers Euphrates and Tigris.
Cemile Şahin is a Kurdish Alevi author and artist. Her work embraces film, photography, sculpture, installation and the literary novel. She takes a particular interest in how history is written, how pictures are used for manipulative ends, and how state power is exercised and portrayed. She has published two novels *Taxi* (2019) and “Alle Hunde Sterben” [All Dogs Die] (2020).
Caroline Stockford is a translator of Turkish poetry and literature into English and Welsh. She writes and performs poetry in English and Turkish and holds a Masters’ Degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University in the History of the Turkish Language. She has translated the poetry of classic and contemporary Turkish poets at the Cunda International Workshop for Translators of Turkish Literature for the past three years and is currently translating two Turkish novels and co-translating the poetry of küçük İskender into Welsh.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)
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