Maureen Freely

Maureen Freely is a writer with eight novels to her name and many other strings to her bow. Well known as a translator of the Turkish Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk, she has also brought into English numerous twentieth century classics and works by Turkey’s rising stars. Her translation of Tezer Özlü's Cold Nights of Childhood won the 2024 NBCC Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize. Her translation of Soysal’s novel Dawn published in 2022 (Archipelago). For many years she worked as a journalist in London, writing about literature, social justice, and human rights. As Chair of the Translators Association and more recently as President and Chair of English PEN and Vice Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, she has campaigned for writers and freedom of expression internationally. She teaches at the University of Warwick.