Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Dawn (Demirtaş novel)

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'''Dawn''' () is a book authored by [[Selahattin Demirtaş]], a Kurdish politician of the [[Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)|Peoples' Democratic Party]] (HDP) and written while he was in the [[F-type Prisons|F-Type prison]] in [[Edirne]].<ref name=":0">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> The cover was designed by his sister Bahar Demirtaş and was released in September 2017.<ref name=":0" /> The Turkish edition has reportedly sold more than 200,000 copies.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>

The rights for the book in English were bought by [[Sarah Jessica Parker]], who published it under the title &nbsp;''Dawn: Stories''.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> It was released on April 23, 2019, under Parker's imprint SJP for [[Hogarth Press]]. It was translated by Amy Marie Spangler and Kate Ferguson.<ref></ref> So far, it has been translated into 8 languages.<ref name=":1"></ref>

The book contains twelve short stories and is described to be directed to the working class<ref name=":2">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> and dedicated to the female victims of violence.<ref name=":0" />

In [[Germany]], the book was received with praise by the German public society. Parts of it were read out by the journalist [[Deniz Yücel]], who previously was in imprisoned in Turkey and [[Cem Özdemir]], a politician of [[The Greens (Germany)|The Greens]].<ref name=":2" />

== Awards ==

* [[PEN International]] "Translates Award" to the book in 2018.<ref name=":12"></ref>

* Montluc Resistance and Liberty Prize of the Emmanuelle Collas publishing house in 2017. As two people wanted to deliver the award in person and come to Turkey, the Turkish authorities didn't permit the entrance to Turkey to one of the two delegates. The authorities also prevented them of seeing their lawyers at the airport in [[Istanbul]]<nowiki/>arguing that "The Airport is new"<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>

== References ==
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[[Category:Turkish books]]
[[Category:2017 books]]


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