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”