Müesser Yeniay
(Turkey, 1984) is a writer, poet, journalist and literary translator. Her poetry has won several Turkish awards. Her books include Darkness Also Falls Ground (2009), I Founded My Home in the Mountains (translation), I Drew the Sky Again (2011), The Other Consciousness: Surrealism and The Second New (2013, on modern Turkish avant-garde poetry), Before Me There Were Deserts (2014), Modern Readings in Turkish Literature (2016), Permanent Talk with the Beloved (2017), and The Memory of Poetry: Writings on Poetics, Canon and Women (2018). She has translated the poetry of Behruz Kia, Ronny Someck, Attila F. Balazs, and Vietnamese poets Mai Van Phan and Nguyễn Quang Thiều. Her poetry has been translated and published in the USA (Mundus Artium Press, When I Slept in a Rose Petal), Hungary (AB-Art, A Rozsaszedes Szertartasa), France (Edition Bruno Doucey, Ainsi Disent-ils) India (Bodhi), Colombia (Silaba, Antes de mi Habia Desiertos), Spain (Edicion de Jaime B. Rosa, Poemas Selectos), Vietnam (Vietnam Writers’ Association, Nghi le Hai Hoa Hong Trong Vuon), Japan (Duet of Flame), and Portugal (Poesia a Sul, Conversa Permanente Com O Amado). She has been a writer-in-residence in the USA, Hong Kong and Belgium. Müesser is the editor of the literature magazine Şiirden (Of Poetry). She is currently pursuing a PhD in Turkish literature at Bilkent University in Ankara.
Past events
What Will They Say, Meltem?
Conversation based on a podcast series by Meltem Halaceli, about literature, poetry, feminism and violence. With live music by jazz singer and cellist Sanem Kalfa, inspired by Müesser Yeniay's poems.
Concluded with a screening of the Writers' Monument, a digital monument for all journalists and writers who were murdered for their writing.
A Book to Call Home with Müesser Yeniay
Chris Keulemans interviewed Müesser Yeniay about the book that brought her home.
Home & Violence
A collage of literary fragments about war and peace under one's own roof, about an unsafe inner world that often remains invisible, about domestic violence. Due to the intimate setting of this program, the doors closed after the start, so be on time.
