Works to be Read in Life
Yedinci Kat World Literature Collaboration Program
Since its founding, Yedinci Kat Yayınları has been a publisher that believes literature knows no boundaries and seeks to bring voices from different geographies to readers in Turkey. Each book is seen as part of a potential new connection between cultures, a shared intellectual and aesthetic ground. This belief drives us not only to publish books but also to establish a lasting network of cultural exchange through literature.
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As Yedinci Kat Yayınları, we aim to establish a lasting cultural bridge with representatives of world literature in various languages. Within this scope, the Yedinci Kat World Literature Collaboration Program is a long-term initiative that includes reciprocal book exchanges and joint publishing projects with international publishers.
Collaborations with publishers under this program are based on a two-way translation and publishing process. While foreign publishers bring the works of Turkish authors into their own languages, Yedinci Kat Yayınları translates and publishes selected books from them in Turkish. In this way, literature becomes not only a form of expression but also a tool for intercultural dialogue and the construction of a shared cultural memory.
Under this program, our first agreements were signed with Delere Press, based in Singapore, and Erratum Press, based in the United Kingdom. Delere Press translated and published The Novel I Want to Sell to Orhan Pamuk, the second volume of Tugay Kaban’s Novel Trilogy, in English. Erratum Press, meanwhile, published Selami Mete Akbaba’s The Great Ideal of Humanity in English.
As Yedinci Kat Yayınları, as part of these collaborations, we have also translated and brought to Turkish readers Je Me Touche by Jeremy Fernando, published by Delere Press, and Lord of the Chaos by Daniel Beauregard, published by Erratum Press.
Yedinci Kat World Literature Collaboration Program marks the first step toward a literature that transcends borders. Each new partnership will be part of an encounter beyond language, an effort by different cultures to understand one another.
