Sema Kaygusuzis one of Turkey's leading contemporary female writers. Her debut novel,Yere Düsen Dualar(Wine and Gold) won international recognition upon publication in 2006. In 2007, she wrote the screenplay for Yesim Ustaoglu's filmPandora'nin Kutusu(Pandora's Box), which won the Golden Shell at the 2008 International Film Festival in San Sebastian. She is a recipient of both the Cevdet-Kudret-Literature Award and the France-Turquie Literary Award.Maureen Freelyis an American journalist, novelist, professor, and translator. She grew up in Turkey and now lives in England, where she lectures at the University of Warwick and contributes to theGuardianand theIndependentnewspapers. She is the author ofThe Life of the PartyandThe Other Rebecca, and is best known as the Turkish-English translator of Orhan Pamuk's recent novels.