Discipline: Literature – translation

Onder Otcu

Discipline: Literature – translation
Region: Istanbul, TURKEY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2002

At MacDowell, translator Onder Otcu, was working on a compilation of poems by Ilhan Berk, a major modernist Turkish poet first to appear in English. The poems, which Onder translated, will be published by Talisman Publishing House in New Jersey.

Studios

Barnard

Onder Otcu worked in the Barnard studio.

Originally built near MacDowell's Union Street entrance, the Barnard Studio — which was funded by Barnard College music students — was re-located to its current site in 1910. When the small structure was moved, its size was doubled with the addition of a second room. This remodeling, financed by Mrs. Thomas E. Emery of Cincinnati…

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