SEBNEM SENYENER - White Horses: An Aegean Understanding of Keats's 'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer'

A talk at the Keats-Shelley House on Friday 11 March at 6 pm

Turkish author Sebnem Senyener will talk about her experience of translating Keats's famous sonnet into Turkish, and offer her own Aegean perspectives on the poem's meanings. 

Advance booking ESSENTIAL/ Standard entrance ticket to the museum applies.

Born in the Aegean port city of Izmir, Turkey, Sebnem Senyener is a novelist. She has published six novels, all of them love stories embedded within art thrillers. Her first novel, Letters Writ By A Turkish Spy (2001) owes its title and story to a 17th century Genovese, Giovanni Marana, the writer of the first spy novel, still unpublished in Italian. Her other novels are: February 30th (2004); We Loved Each Other With A Thousand Eyes (2014); and a trilogy, My Heart Stark Naked composed of The Murder of Belly Dancer (2006); The Merchant of Character (2008); The Song of Death is Free (2014).Senyener moved to New York soon after the 1980 military coup banned "The Democrat," the newspaper she was working for.  She started living in Rome in 2010. Presently she also lives in London.