Taking turns reading in German and Turkish, the two read passages from Emrah’s work Fragments, which was published in German by binooki last March. Together with Emrah, Selma is currently on a 10-day long reading tour across Germany and Switzerland, which they took a break from for the birthday. ”Publishing work unfortunately doesn’t just mean making great books, it also means sometimes getting tied up in politics,” Selma soberly declares on this evening.
A year later, binooki published the anthology Gezi, which wasn’t consequence-free for the young publishing house: binooki lost important funding from the EU as well as Turkey. Serbes was active during the Gezi Protests at Taksim Square in Istanbul two years ago. The series was soon cancelled and Serbes was charged with making comments critical of the government. His socio-critical stories were also broadcast as a television series. Serbes decided to become an author at age fourteen, and published his first volume at age 25 about the stubborn detective Behzat Ç. They brought their youngest and most successful author with them on this evening: Emrah Serbes, the enfant terrible of the Turkish literature scene. Today, their publishing list comprises 25 sophisticated books of Turkish literature, reaching from mystery to fiction to fantasy. Cold.” But the two sisters’ business idea was welcomed with open arms and they won three prizes in the first two years, including the well-known Kurt-Wolff-Förderpreis (2013). Selma described the start four years ago on this evening in three words “Jump. For the birthday party, both publishers Selma Wels and Inci Bürhaniye chose the wonderful PUTTENSAAL in the Luisenbad Library, which was completely full.īinooki was founded in 2011 with the intention to publish Turkish Literature in German, and thereby make it accessible to the German-speaking audience. Our favourite publishing house binooki is celebrating its fourth birthday with special guests such as the Turkish author Emrah Serbes.
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