{"id":2588,"date":"2024-07-16T14:01:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T14:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iapti.org\/BSconference\/?page_id=2588"},"modified":"2024-09-21T14:39:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T14:39:02","slug":"defne-cizakca","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.iapti.org\/BSconference\/defne-cizakca\/","title":{"rendered":"Defne \u00c7izak\u00e7a"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2588\" class=\"elementor elementor-2588\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4855f825 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"4855f825\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;boxed&quot;}\" data-core-v316-plus=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3c9b9097 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3c9b9097\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.19.0 - 07-02-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p style=\"background: none;\"><span style=\"background-color: initial; color: #dd3000; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 18px; text-align: var(--text-align);\">Dreaming Between Languages: A Writer\u2019s Personal Account<br \/><\/span><\/p><p>We are all born into language, and sometimes, if we are lucky, we may be born into more than one. I was born into a Dutch-Turkish family in Cyprus. In time English became my third language and the one in which I wrote my PhD thesis at the Creative Writing department of Glasgow University.<\/p><p>I eventually translated my PhD novel from English into Turkish. From the get go I realized this was not the work of a translator who must be faithful to the text, but the work of a writer who changes, edits, plays and renovates as she writes. The \u201ctranslation,\u201d of my novel from English to Turkish was not so much a translation as it was an older text birthing a new one.<\/p><p>In this personal writer\u2019s talk, I would like to answer some of the following questions: How do we choose our writing language? Is a text really ever the same in different languages? Are we different writers in different languages? What are the dynamics of self-translating? And do the stories we tell change in accordance with the language we write in?<\/p><div><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>BIOGRAPHY<\/strong><\/span><\/div><p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><strong><span data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iapti.org\/BSconference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Defne.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2498 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iapti.org\/BSconference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Defne-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iapti.org\/BSconference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Defne-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iapti.org\/BSconference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Defne-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.iapti.org\/BSconference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Defne-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/www.iapti.org\/BSconference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Defne-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.iapti.org\/BSconference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Defne.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Defne <\/span>\u00c7izak\u00e7a<\/strong> I am a writer and editor who works in Turkish and English, specialising in literary fiction and magical realism. I have PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow. My historical novel in Turkish, Melankolik Cinler K\u0131lavuzu, is forthcoming with the Istanbul based \u0130thaki in June 2024. Ansuz &#8211; a collection of my stories in Turkish, English and Spanish &#8211; is forthcoming with Libros de Ciempies, based in Barcelona, in August 2024. Additionally, I have written three collector edition, feminist fairy tales for adults which were illustrated and published by the Poet House.<br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><div style=\"clear: both;\"><!--placeholder--><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dreaming Between Languages: A Writer\u2019s Personal Account We are all born into language, and sometimes,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iapti.org\/BSconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iapti.org\/BSconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iapti.org\/BSconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iapti.org\/BSconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iapti.org\/BSconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2588"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.iapti.org\/BSconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3247,"href":"https:\/\/www.iapti.org\/BSconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2588\/revisions\/3247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iapti.org\/BSconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}