Margreet Dorleijn

(1956) works as a linguist at the University of Amsterdam, specializing in Turkish literature, ethnic variaties of Dutch, bi-lingualism and language and identity. With Hanneke van der Heijden she translated among others My Name is Red and Snow by Nobel prize winner Orhan Pamuk and The Flea Palace by Elif Shafak. The two also edited a Dutch anthology of modern Turkish short stories.