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Instructions on how to do this are <a href=\"https:\/\/its.uiowa.edu\/support\/article\/719\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. Alternatively, you can try another browser such as Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge. If the problem persists, please email <a href=\"mailto:cbcp@reading.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cbcp@reading.ac.uk<\/a>)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00d6zlem Berk Albachten\u2019s paper will focus on the first translated Turkish novel in Britain: Re\u015fat Nuri G\u00fcntekin\u2019s \u00c7al\u0131ku\u015fu (The Wren, 1923), translated by Sir Wyndham Deedes and published by Allen and Unwin Publishers as The Autobiography of a Turkish Girl in 1949. Based on the correspondence between Sir Deedes and Allen &amp; Unwin between 1945-1949 preserved in the Archive of British Publishers and Printing held at the University of Reading\u2019s Special Collections, the paper will examine the publication process of the novel from pitch to marketing and evaluate the cultural, political, business considerations that shaped the action and decision-making process of \u201cthe gate-keepers\u201d that regulated the translation flow from Turkish.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u2663<\/p>\n<p>\u00d6zlem Berk Albachten is currently a British Academy Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Reading, working on a project that examines the dissemination of Turkish literature in translation in the British book market from 1945 to the mid-Seventies through an evaluation of readers\u2019 reports, sale records, and business correspondence with series editors, translators, and professional readers concerning the assessment of translation projects from Turkish, preserved in the Archive of British Printing and Publishing held at the University of Reading\u2019s Special Collections. She is a Professor of Translation Studies at Bo\u011fazi\u00e7i University, Istanbul. Her research interests include translation history, intralingual translation, retranslation, Turkish women translators, and autobiography\/life writing. She is the author of Translation and Westernisation in Turkey (2004) and Kuramlar I\u015f\u0131\u011f\u0131nda A\u00e7\u0131klamal\u0131 \u00c7eviribilim Terimcesi (Annotated Translation Terminology, 2005). She co-edited Perspectives on Retranslation. Ideology, Paratexts, Methods (Routledge, 2019), Retranslation in Turkey (Springer, 2019), Routledge Handbook of Intralingual Translation (2024), and the Special issue: Retranslation, Multidisciplinarity and Multimodality for The Translator (2020).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: \u00d6zlem Berk Albachten (British Academy Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Reading) This research seminar is a hybrid event &amp; is free &amp; open to&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"&#104;&#116;&#116;&#112;&#115;&#58;&#47;&#47;&#114;&#101;&#115;&#101;&#97;&#114;&#99;&#104;&#46;&#114;&#101;&#97;&#100;&#105;&#110;&#103;&#46;&#97;&#99;&#46;&#117;&#107;&#47;&#99;&#101;&#110;&#116;&#114;&#101;&#45;&#102;&#111;&#114;&#45;&#98;&#111;&#111;&#107;&#45;&#99;&#117;&#108;&#116;&#117;&#114;&#101;&#115;&#45;&#97;&#110;&#100;&#45;&#112;&#117;&#98;&#108;&#105;&#115;&#104;&#105;&#110;&#103;&#47;&#101;&#118;&#101;&#110;&#116;&#47;&#119;&#104;&#97;&#116;&#115;&#45;&#105;&#110;&#45;&#97;&#45;&#116;&#105;&#116;&#108;&#101;&#45;&#115;&#105;&#114;&#45;&#119;&#121;&#100;&#104;&#97;&#109;&#45;&#100;&#101;&#101;&#100;&#101;&#115;&#45;&#97;&#108;&#108;&#101;&#110;&#45;&#117;&#110;&#119;&#105;&#110;&#45;&#97;&#110;&#100;&#45;&#114;&#101;&#115;&#97;&#116;&#45;&#110;&#117;&#114;&#105;&#45;&#103;&#117;&#110;&#116;&#101;&#107;&#105;&#110;&#115;&#45;&#116;&#104;&#101;&#45;&#97;&#117;&#116;&#111;&#98;&#105;&#111;&#103;&#114;&#97;&#112;&#104;&#121;&#45;&#111;&#102;&#45;&#97;&#45;&#116;&#117;&#114;&#107;&#105;&#115;&#104;&#45;&#103;&#105;&#114;&#108;&#47;\">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":804,"featured_media":2177,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"coauthors":[49],"class_list":["post-2175","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What\u2019s in a Title: Sir Wydham Deedes, Allen &amp; 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