Varlık Publishing

Varlık Publishing (Varlık Yayınları) is a Turkish publishing house established in 1946 by the writer and editor Yaşar Nabi Nayır. It is one of Turkey's most enduring literary publishers, closely associated with the influential cultural magazine Varlık, which has been a platform for Turkish poetry, fiction, and criticism. The publisher's early decades were prolific: in its first 35 years it issued nearly a thousand original and translated works, including titles by major Turkish authors such as Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı, Orhan Veli Kanık, Sait Faik Abasıyanık, Nurullah Ataç, Ziya Osman Saba, Oktay Akbal, Mahmut Makal, Necati Cumalı, Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Behçet Necatigil, Cahit Külebi, Orhan Kemal, Haldun Taner, and Tahsin Yücel. It also published hundreds of translations of world literature, bringing Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Gogol, Kafka, Tolstoy, Steinbeck, Hemingway, Balzac, Malraux, Émile Zola, Camus, and Sartre to Turkish readers. The house's first book was Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı's poetry collection Otuz Beş Yaş. In 1979 it received the Ministry of Culture Grand Award. Today Varlık continues to publish books and the monthly Varlık magazine, maintaining its literary focus and its tradition of supporting new voices through awards such as the Yaşar Nabi Nayır Poetry and Story Prizes.

Varlık Publishing was founded in 1946 by Yaşar Nabi Nayır, a prominent Turkish poet, writer, and editor. The publishing house quickly became a central institution in Turkish literary life, not only through its books but also through the magazine Varlık, which Nayır had founded earlier and which continued under the same imprint. In its first 35 years, Varlık Yayınları published nearly a thousand original and translated works. Its catalogue featured leading Turkish authors and poets of the era, including Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı, Orhan Veli Kanık, Sait Faik Abasıyanık, Nurullah Ataç, Ziya Osman Saba, Oktay Akbal, Mahmut Makal, Necati Cumalı, Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Behçet Necatigil, Cahit Külebi, Orhan Kemal, Haldun Taner, and Tahsin Yücel. The house also played a major role in translating world literature into Turkish, publishing works by Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Gogol, Kafka, Tolstoy, Steinbeck, Hemingway, Balzac, Malraux, Émile Zola, Camus, and Sartre. The first book published by Varlık was Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı's poetry collection Otuz Beş Yaş. In 1979, the publisher was honored with the Ministry of Culture Grand Award (Kültür Bakanlığı Büyük Ödülü). Varlık has maintained its activity into the 21st century, continuing to release new books and monthly issues of Varlık Dergisi, and administering the Yaşar Nabi Nayır Poetry and Story Prizes, which support emerging writers.

• 1979

  Awarded the Ministry of Culture Grand Award (Kültür Bakanlığı Büyük Ödülü).

• 1946

  Varlık Publishing founded by Yaşar Nabi Nayır.

• 1946

  First book published: Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı's poetry collection Otuz Beş Yaş.

Literary publisher and cultural institution

• Varlık Dergisi (magazine)

• Books by Turkish authors

• Translations of world literature

1. 1Varlık Yayınları, Varlık Dergisi, Varlık Yayınevivarlik.com.tr
2. 2Varlık Publishingwikidata.org
3. 3Varlık Yayınlarıtr.wikipedia.org