Mehmet Hakkı Suçin
Mehmet Hakkı Suçin is an award-winning literary translator, writer, and academic who brings classical and modern Arabic literature into Turkish. His translations span more than fifteen centuries of literary tradition, from the pre-Islamic Mu‘allaqāt to al-Mutanabbi, Ibn Hazm, and Ibn Tufayl, and to Naguib Mahfouz, Adonis, Mahmoud Darwish, Ghassan Kanafani, and Adania Shibli.
Authored works
Authored books; academic work on translation studies, Arabic literature, and Arabic language teaching; essays and writings on literature, translation, and culture.
Translations
Poetry, novels, short stories, and works of thought from classical and modern Arabic literature; literary translations from other languages.
Selected works
Selected writings
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Simple as Water, Clear as a Gunshot
Forty-nine poems selected from four books by the Syrian poet Riad Saleh Hussein, translated from the Arabic by Mehmet Hakkı…
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Najwan Darwish’s Poetry through Words at the Gate of Jerusalem
Taking the selection Kudüs’ün Kapısında Kelimeler as its starting point, this essay examines how Najwan Darwish turns the Palestinian experience…
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Translating Turkish Literature into Arabic
A quantitative study of some 300 literary translations from Turkish into Arabic: their distribution by author, genre and translator, the…