A Cuisine of Exile (Halman Library)

GÜN BENDERLİ was twenty-one when she left Turkey in 1951 to escape a political mass arrest. She spent the rest of her life abroad, in cities such as Paris, Leipzig, and mostly Budapest, where she worked as a broadcaster for Hungarian Radio and a member of the banned Communist Party of Turkey (TKP). Gün has translated over a dozen Hungarian writers into Turkish and penned three volumes of memoirs, recounting her life and political work alongside names such as Nazım Hikmet and Sabiha Sertel. In 2024, she was awarded the Balassi Grand Prize for Literary Translation by the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

EVRIM EMIR-SAYERS is a scholar of philosophy who researches, teaches, writes, edits, and translates out of Paris, France.

DAVID SELIM SAYERS is a scholar of Turkey and the Ottoman Empire with a focus on history and literature.