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.