Erdağ M. Göknar

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Erdağ Göknar, a scholar and literary translator, is Assistant Professor of Turkish Studies at Duke University. He is the award-winning translator of Orhan Pamuk's best-selling novel, My Name is Red (Knopf, 2001). The novel was awarded the 2003 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, a prize that is unique because it acknowledges both translator and author. He is currently a fellow at the National Humanities Center in Durham, NC, where he is writing a book on the modern novel in Turkish and Orhan Pamuk's place in Turkey's literary tradition.