The Lion and the Nightingale

Kaya Genç is a novelist and essayist from Istanbul whose writing has appeared in The New York Times The Paris Review The Guardian The Financial Times The London Review of Books Salon Guernica Magazine Sight & Sound The Millions The White Review and TIME Magazine among others. His first novel L Avventura was published in 2008. Kaya has a PhD in English literature and is the Istanbul correspondent of The LA Review of Books as well as a contributing editor at Index on Censorship. He has written a history of Turkish literature for Harvard University Press and is the author of Under the Shadow (I. B. Tauris 2017) an account of the Gezi Park uprisings and the coup attempt of December 2016. He is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. Language: English