Perihan Mağden Q & A

       At Freeword Canan Marasligil has a Q & A with Turkish author Perihan Mağden [via].
       Among her responses:

Translation is a huge problem. I can only read in English -- thank God ! -- and whenever I need to check the work, I find it pretty unbearable. I feel like I was robbed; my language was, if not better, completely different. With one translation I felt -- and to this day I feel -- that my novel was murdered. It was done so sloppily, so lazily, so shamelessly.

       Sad (but far too common ...).
       Two of Mağden's novels are under review at the complete review: Ali and Ramazan and Escape.