Maureen Freely on the turbulent life and work of Turkish author Tezer Özlü

Maureen Freely on the life and work of the late Tezer Özlü. Her translation of Özlü’s 1980 novel “Cold Nights of Childhood” has just been published for the first time in English by Serpent’s Tail.

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