Sabri Gürses

Sabri Gürses is a Turkish writer. He has published poetry, novels, and short stories. His best-known novel in Turkey is Sevişme, which is a science fiction novel about the way people use their bodies in a postmodern age. He has also written a science fiction trilogy, Boşvermişler. After graduating from the Russian Language and Literature Department of Istanbul University in 1999 he started working as a professional literary translator. In 2005 he completed his master’s degree at the Translation Studies Department of the same university with a thesis on comparative translation criticism: “Vladimir Nabokov’s Translation of Eugene Onegin and Translations of Onegin in Turkish”. In 2019 he earned his doctorate at the Erciyes University with a thesis on the Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School founder Juri Lotman: “Juri Lotman: His life, his works and his legacy”.