TARIK GÜNERSEL

Former President of PEN Turkey Centre and member of PEN International Board, Günersel worked at Istanbul Metropolitan Theatre as a dramaturg. His plays include Nero and Agrippina, Threatening Tolstoy, and Fate Planners. He wrote four opera libretti for Selman Ada (Ali Baba& 40, Forbidden Love, Blue Dot, Purple Planet) and two for Daniel Galay (Dancing Anna Frank, produced in Tel Aviv in 2016) and Tesla’s Dream. His translations include works by Perry Anderson, Samuel Beckett, Tim Burton, Vaclav Havel, Savyon Liebrecht and Arthur Miller.