İTLF - İstanbul Tanpınar Litarute Festival 2010
ITEF 2011 - Oct 3rd - 6th
İTEF - İstanbul Tanpinar Literature Festival
October 3rd - 6th, 2011
3rd annual ITEF held in Istanbul.
Theme of 2011: City and Food
ITEF has been developed in cooperation with Literature Across Frontiers and with support from the Culture Programme of the EU.
Turkey’s unique International Literary Festival: 54 authors from 13 countries!
“ITEF – Istanbul Tanpinar Literature Festival” will bring together 54 authors from 13 countries around a literature feast with their readers in Turkey.
ITEF-Istanbul Tanpınar Literature Festival is in its 3rd year has become a part of the international network of literary festivals through its cooperation with on of the world’s most prominent festivals Hay Festival of Literature and Arts and Copenhagen International Literature Festival.
In 2011, among the supporters of ITEF are, EU Culture Programme, LAF (Literature Across Frontiers), Yunus Emre Foundation, Institut Français d’İstanbul, Instituto Italiano di Cultura di İstanbul, Dimitrie Cantemir Romanian Cultural Center, FILI (Finnish Literature Exchange), The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature, Consulat General of Netherlands, Embassy of Brazil, Israel Consulate Istanbuland from Turkey, Timaş, Erdem, Everest and Yapı Kredi Publishing Houses, Derya Öncü Educational Facilities, Gökyüzü Educational Facilities, Kalem Culture Association, Kalem Agency and D&R Bookshops.
Pera Museum, KargArt, Büyük Çamlıca Koleji, UPM, Türk Kütüphaneciler Derneği Istanbul Şubesi has also contributed to the realisation of ITEF 2011.
Press and publicity sponsors of ITEF 2011 are Akşam Newspaper and SabitFikir online magazine.
City and Food - A Literary Feast in Istanbul!
ITEF 2011 embraced the theme “City and Food”, highlighting an analogy between literature and food both indispensable in the cultural life of the city.
Following the Opening Ceremony, to be held at the exquisite Ciragan Palace Kempinski on October 2nd with the expected attendance of Turkish Minister of Culture, literature lovers of Istanbul will enjoy “literary dinners with authors”, discussions, readings and festival parties between October 3rd and 6th in venues like Cezayir Restaurant, Pera Museum, KargaArt, auditoriums of Işık Highschools.
Cezayir Restaurant, the main venue sponsor of the festival, will host the “The Literary Feast” events consisting of author readings followed by a thematic cocktail prolonged, namely, “Jewish and Sephardic Kitchen”, “Ottoman Harem Suare” and “Istanbul Cuisine in Literature” and those who are willing, will continue the feasty discussions through the respective dinner with the attendance of all the festival authors.
In the evening of 3rd October, Mario Levi, Liz Behmoaras and the modern stars of Israeli literature, Shifra Horn and Alona Kimhi will discuss the reflections of Sephardic Culture in literature and kitchen, livening up Anatolian culture since 15th century. Horn and Kimhi’s contribution to the theme will encompass the traits of the wider Jewish eating culture.
In the evening of 4th October, Gül İrepoğlu, Reha Çamuroğlu and Solmaz Kamuran will read passages from their historical novels which take place on the wide geography from the Balkans to the Arab world which nourished the Ottoman cuisine. Vice president of the Serbian PEN, publisher and Balcanica Prize laureate, novelist Vladislav Bajac who was the guest author of Çırağan Readings in spring, will also be attending the event. Alongside the gourmet Artun Ünsal, our authors who hold the secrets of transforming real people into novel characters will taste the exquisite recipes of Ottoman kitchen with their readers.
In the third evening of the festival, Selim Ileri and Ahmet Ümit together with the gourmet Artun Ünsal will sit down to meal on the table of cosmopolitan Istanbul. The two adepts will follow the traces of the eating culture of Istanbul with its taverns, coffee places, “uykuluk” counters, clam trays, foods of seraglio, street and shopkeepers in our literature.
ITEF Highlights
We are delighted to announce a new relationship between ITEF and the global Hay Festivals group, who operate in Britain, Colombia, Lebanon, Spain, Mexico, India, Kenya, Hungary, The Maldives and Ireland. The partnership has been brokered by The British Council, the UK’s international cultural relations body. The brokering of this new relationship forms part of a wider range of activities between the British Council and partners in the UK and Turkey to promote literary exchange between our two countries. In this first year Hay and the British Council will be bringing Hanif Kureishi and Tiffany Murray to Istanbul, and we will be sending Turkish writers to the festival's 25th anniversary celebrations in Wales next spring. We will work to extend the collaboration to writers from all the other partner countries in The Hay Festivals group over the next five years.
ITEF embraces Children’s Literature!
To reach all ages, ITEF 2011 will hold events at FMV Isik Schools with the appearance of children books authors Thilo and Marjolijn Hof.
With the supports of Erdem Publishing, illustrator Claire Franek will meet students at Ensar Schools, Buyuk Camlica College and many others. Franek will perform a presentation about the creation process of her beloved character Fred and the students will attend interactive workshops pertaining to the art of illustration.
Timothée de Fombelle, who has become children’s hero with his Toby Lolness series and Claude Helft who brings together fairy tales of far cultures, together with Gökçe Ateş Altuğ children’s writer and editor of Hayy Publishing House will discuss new trends, recent developments and translation problems, in children’s literature under the moderator ship of the writer-publisher Fatih Erdoğan.
Closing Party on 6th October offers an amazing night, turning authors into DJs like previous years.
ITEF 2011 moves outside Istanbul
ITEF events out of Istanbul will be held at libraries, the university campus and historical places in Mersin between October 7th-8th, with the cooperation of Mersin University, Department of Translation, Consulate General of Netherlands and Literature Across Frontiers (LAF).
ITEF’s crime novelist from Netherlands, Charles den Tex, children’s writer Marjolijn Hof Vladislav Bajac and Hungarian writer Krisztian Grecso will perform at the long awaited “authors’ events” and meet with their readers in Mersin.
City and Food: The Festival Book
The book brings together texts that relate to the theme of the festival within a range of diversity vis a vis styles and genres, almost as a metaphor of the cosmopolitan aspect of the city of Istanbul.
Since the book will not only be distributed in Istanbul but also in major Anatolian cities, it will be accessible for the literature lovers in other parts of the country, spreading the festival spirit all over Turkey. It is devised to be a lasting ephemera and a souvenir of the long way the festival covered within three years.
ITEF crosses the borders of national literatures, not only providing a platform for writers, publishers and culture and arts journalists but also emphasizing via the Festival Book the possibility and productivity of an intertextual dialogue.
ITEF cares for the young readers and the literature that addresses children and youth, so in 2011 the festival will also publish a children’s selection. Children’s writers Timothée de Fombelle, Claude Helft, Thilo and Marjolijn Hof will contribute to this edition with stories written exclusively for the occasion. The cover art is by the French academician illustrator Claire Franek. The book will be distributed free of charge in several elementary schools to the children 7-12 years old.
İTEF 2011’s volunteers are a students of Okan University’s Department of Translation Studies.
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