User:99parustimsah/Ayberk Erkay

Ayberk Erkay, Turkish man of letters, translator, collector.

He specialized in French literature, contemporary philosophy, and theater theories after receiving education in these fields. He continued his academic and literary work in these areas. He translated numerous literary works from various Western languages, primarily French, into Turkish. Over a hundred theater plays translated by him, along with a significant number of prose and poetic texts, were published by different publishing houses. Many of his play translations were performed by professional and amateur theater groups. In addition to translating works by influential figures in Western literature such as Rimbaud, Keats, Baudelaire, Stendhal, Mallarmé, Apollinaire, Valéry, T.S. Eliot, Aragon, Tzara, Artaud, Céline, Camus, Vian, Bataille, Blanchot, and Koltès, he conducted research and contributed to the field with literary works and translations focusing on overlooked and deviant texts. He played a role in introducing numerous contemporary authors to the readers.

He made contributions to art and literature-focused publications, collections, and repertoires both domestically and internationally through his research, writings, and translations. He served as a publishing editor and managed various art and literature series within different publishing houses. He also participated in numerous conferences, academic sessions, and international festivals on Western literature and theater, both domestically and internationally.

While concentrating his literary work and academic activities on dramatic and poetic texts in Western literature, he continued his literary translation pursuits without interruption. By tracing the paths of neglected texts, he contributed to the formation and development of a literary archaeology field.

Having a collection of literary works that includes the first editions published in Western languages, signed copies, and limited edition prints, he also serves as an advisor to certain domestic and international collections.

Some of the works he translated into Turkish

• History of Violence - Édouard Louis
• Igitur - Stéphane Mallarmé
• The Magnetic Fields - André Breton & Philippe Soupault
• The End of Eddy - Édouard Louis
• The Maids - Jean Genet
• Who Killed My Father - Édouard Louis
• Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat - Mark Ravenhill
• Winter Journeys - Georges Perec & OULIPO
• The Father, The Mother, The Son - Florian Zeller
• Lettres du voyant - Arthur Rimbaud
• Animal Farm - George Orwell
• Ellis Island - Georges Perec
• Dictionary of Received Ideas - Gustave Flaubert
• The Sarajevo Assassination - Georges Perec
• The Day Before the Revolution - Ursula K. Le Guin
• Miss Julie - August Strindberg
• White and Black - Eugène Ionesco
• Tideline - Wajdi Mouawad
• In the Solitude of Cotton Fields  - Bernard-Marie Koltès
• The Cat and the Devil - James Joyce
• The Chrysanthemums - John Steinbeck
• Paris Peasant - Louis Aragon
• Species of Spaces - Georges Perec
• I Was in the House and I Was Waiting for the Rain to Come - Jean-Luc Lagarce
• Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats  - T. S. Eliot
• Memoirs of a Madman - Gustave Flaubert
• Monsieur Teste - Paul Valéry
• Ahmed the Philosopher - Alain Badiou
• Caravanserail - Francis Picabia
• Revolt in Asturias - Albert Camus
• The Misunderstanding - Albert Camus
• The State of Siege - Albert Camus
• Caligula - Albert Camus
• The Just Assassins - Albert Camus
• Jacques and His Master - Milan Kundera
• Conversations with Professor Y - Louis-Ferdinand Céline
• It's Only the End of the World - Jean-Luc Lagarce
• The Night Just Before The Forests - Bernard-Marie Koltès
• On Love - Stendhal
• The Breasts of Tiresias - Guillaume Apollinaire
• Blasted - Sarah Kane
• The Generals' Tea Party - Boris Vian
• The Empire Builders - Boris Vian
• Bibliomania - Gustave Flaubert
• The Knacker's ABC - Boris Vian
• The Merchants - Joel Pommerat
• The Color of Time - Guillaume Apollinaire
• Jet of Blood - Antonin Artaud
• Imaginary Life of the Street Sweeper August G.  - Armand Gatti
• The Death of Doctor Faustus - Michel de Ghelderode
• The Pelicans - Raymond Radiguet
• Tosca - Victorien Sardou
• The Impostures of Scapin - Molière
• Don Juan - Molière

[[Category:Turkish translators]] [[Category:Turkish writers]]