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Dalloway Day comes to Turkey on June 20

Wednesday 17 June 2026 by Paula Maggio

Dalloway Day is coming to Turkey. Celebrated in London last Saturday, June 13, it will be celebrated in Turkey one week later, on June 20.

It arrives just in time for the 35th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Woolf and Sound, which will be held June 24-28 in Istanbul.

The Woolf Arts Archive is sponsoring the Turkish Dalloway Day event, “Bir Yazarı Yaşatmak: Virginia Woolf Ankara’da” / “Keeping an Author Alive: Virginia Woolf in Ankara”, at 16.30 Turkey Time and KültKavaklıdere will host.

The day’s focus

The event will focus on works that reimagine Virginia Woolf as a writer, character and literary figure. It will consider how Woolf continues to live through rewriting, translation, fiction, and the arts, and how literature can give renewed voice to an author after her death.

Maggie Gee’s Virginia Woolf in Manhattan will also be part of this conversation. The novel’s recent Turkish publication offers an especially timely point of connection for the Ankara Dalloway Day event, bringing together questions of Woolf’s afterlives, literary return, translation, and contemporary reception in Turkey.

The day’s speakers

  • Prof. Dr. Mine Özyurt Kılıç
  • Atahan Mahir Karabiber
  • Tuğba Çanakçı

Poster image: Elisa Kay Sparks, “Encaustic Collages: Virginia Woolf”

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Bloomsbury art up for auction June 17

Tuesday 16 June 2026 by Paula Maggio

Duncan Grant self-portrait

Collectors of the art of Bloomsbury artists Duncan Grant, Dora Carrington, Henry Lamb, Quentin Bell, or Paul Roche will be interested in this — an auction of their work that begins tomorrow, June 17.

It is the first time this work has been offered at auction in 60 years. Viewing ran from June 15-16.

Watch the 14-minute YouTube video in which Kentucky resident Kate Archer, the owner of the collection and the daughter of the late collector, discusses the art, as well as her memories of visiting Charleston and meeting Grant when she was nine years old.

The David Elstob Auction Gallery in the UK is running the auction. Look for the Country House Sale to view the items and register to bid. Many items besides the Bloomsbury art are included in this lot, but you can refine your search in the search window.

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Virginia Woolf in Manhattan now in Turkish

Monday 15 June 2026 by Paula Maggio

We will have two bits of news from Turkey for you this week — just in time for the 35th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Woolf and Sound, which will be held June 24-28 in Istanbul.

Here is the first news item. The second will be posted later this week, so stay tuned.

Maggie Gee’s Virginia Woolf in Manhattan has now been published in Turkish by Eriken Yayınları, under the title Virginia Woolf Manhattan’da.

Translated by Prof. Dr. Mine Özyurt Kılıç, the novel brings together London, New York and Istanbul through a playful literary dialogue with Virginia Woolf’s works, from Mrs Dalloway and Orlando to A Room of One’s Own and The Waves.

The cover design, created by artist Elif Okur Tolun, also nods to Vanessa Bell’s legacy, gently recalling her contribution to the visual world of Woolf’s books—as Woolf’s sister and a key figure in the Bloomsbury circle, Bell famously decorated many of the early Hogarth Press editions of Woolf’s works with her own artwork, helping to shape their distinctive visual identity.

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Call for papers out now for 36th Annual International Woolf Conference: Between the Arts, June 16-20 in Oslo, Norway

Friday 5 June 2026 by Paula Maggio

The call for papers and works is out now for the 36th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Between the Arts , which will be held June 16-20, 2027, at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and the University of Oslo in Oslo, Norway. The deadline for submissions is Oct. 15.

Presentation options

Contributions from across the fields of academic and artistic research that emphasize artistic expression, and draws on the inspiration of the Bloomsbury group are welcome. The conference will investigate how the various arts and the senses interact with one another and is looking for contributions that combine artistic and academic approaches.

Twenty-minutes individual presentations, panels, roundtables, workshops and creative works are welcome.

Submissions and more information

The deadline for submissions is Oct. 15. Submissions should be emailed to woolf2027@khio.no.

See more details in the JPEG below, which you download and enlarge for better readability here. As conference planning progresses, more information will be posted on the conference website at https://khio.no/events/2417


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Five Woolf novels among The Guardian’s 100 best

Thursday 4 June 2026 by Paula Maggio

The Guardian newspaper asked 170 novelists, critics and academics for their top 10 works of fiction, ranked in order. Five of the 100 were novels by Virginia Woolf.

Woolf scholar Vara Neverow shared this information via the VWoolf Listserv, and Emilia Castellucci, membership secretary for the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, passed it on to members.

Here are Woolf’s five novels that made The Guardian list:

  • Jacob’s Room (#90 of 100)
  • The Waves (55)
  • Orlando (54)
  • Mrs Dalloway (14) and
  • To the Lighthouse (4).

Comparison to previous poll years

The Guardian ran similar polls in 2003 and 2015, and here is what has changed.

  • More female writers made the list. Thirty-six out of 100 this year,  compared with 21 in 2015 and a paltry 16 in 2003
  • Of women writers, only Jane Austen’s Emma and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein made the top 10 of both previous lists. This year, Emma was number 13 and Frankenstein number 30.

Which novel made the top of the list this year? It is Middlemarch by George Eliot, one of Woolf’s favorites. Of it, she said:

the magnificent book […] with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels written for grown-up people’

Stephen King, David Nicholls, Bernardine Evaristo, Salman Rushdie, Anne Enright, Yiyun Li, Elif Shafak, Ian McEwan, Maggie O’Farrell, Colm Tóibín, Lorrie Moore and Katherine Rundell were among those polled. All were asked for their top 10, ranked in order. Any book published in English, but originally written in any language, was eligible.

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