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| Can Yayınları | |
|---|---|
| Name | Can Yayınları |
| Founded | 1981 |
| Founder | İsmail Can |
| Country | Turkey |
| Headquarters | Istanbul |
| Distribution | National, international |
| Publications | Books |
| Topics | Literature, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essays, translations |
Can Yayınları Can Yayınları is an independent Turkish publishing house established in 1981 in Istanbul. It has played a central role in Turkish literary culture, introducing Turkish readers to international novelists, poets, essayists, philosophers, historians, and social critics, while promoting Turkish authors domestically and abroad. The list below situates the press within networks of writers, translators, editors, institutions, prizes, and cultural movements that shape contemporary literary life.
Founded in 1981, the press emerged amid post-1980 coup Türkiye alongside publishers such as İletişim Yayınları, Metis Yayınları, Yapı Kredi Yayınları, Remzi Kitabevi, and Canan Yayınları (İstanbul), participating in debates involving figures like Orhan Pamuk, Yaşar Kemal, Nazım Hikmet, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Sezai Karakoç, and institutions such as Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, İstanbul Üniversitesi, Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi, and Hacettepe Üniversitesi. Early catalog decisions placed the house in conversation with international names including Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Over decades the publisher navigated political pressures, censorship controversies tied to cases like the prosecution of authors in the 1990s and 2000s, interactions with rights agencies such as Turkish Patent and Trademark Office-related frameworks, and collaborations with cultural institutions including İstanbul Bienali, Istanbul Festivali, and the Turkish Publishers Association. The house’s trajectory intersects with translation networks linking Gallimard, Faber and Faber, Penguin Books, Random House, HarperCollins, and S. Fischer Verlag.
The program spans fiction, poetry, drama, essays, memoirs, biography, travel writing, philosophy, history, sociology, and political commentary, situating titles alongside works by Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gustave Flaubert, Émile Zola, Herman Melville, Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco, Milan Kundera, Vladimir Nabokov, Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, Kenzaburō Ōe, Pablo Neruda, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Paul Auster, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Elif Şafak, Orhan Pamuk, Ahmet Ümit, Latife Tekin, Adalet Ağaoğlu, Vedat Türkali, Sait Faik Abasıyanık, Oğuz Atay, Leyla Erbil, Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar, Halide Edip Adıvar, Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Suat Derviş, and Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil. The list includes literary translations of novelists, modernist poets, and critical theory authors like Theodor W. Adorno, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Pierre Bourdieu, Hannah Arendt, Jürgen Habermas, Judith Butler, Noam Chomsky, Edward Said, and Walter Benjamin.
Catalog highlights feature translations and original works that place the publisher in dialogue with authors such as Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Gustave Flaubert, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Umberto Eco, Milan Kundera, Vladimir Nabokov, Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, Salman Rushdie, Paul Auster, Elif Şafak, Orhan Pamuk, Yaşar Kemal, Latife Tekin, Oğuz Atay, Leyla Erbil, Sait Faik Abasıyanık, and Adalet Ağaoğlu. Nonfiction lists include works by Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Hannah Arendt, Edward Said, Noam Chomsky, Jürgen Habermas, Walter Benjamin, John Berger, Susan Sontag, Roland Barthes, Fredric Jameson, Simon Schama, Eric Hobsbawm, and Mary Beard.
The publisher has maintained curated series and thematic imprints connecting to collections of classic literature, contemporary fiction, poetry, and critical theory, often modeled on series from Penguin Classics, Everyman's Library, Folio Society, Gallimard Folio, Sämtliche Werke-style editions, and scholarly series similar to Cambridge University Press or Oxford University Press cataloging. Series have featured curated editions of William Shakespeare, Homer, Dante Alighieri, John Milton, Geoffrey Chaucer, Alexander Pope, Molière, Voltaire, Denis Diderot, Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and modern essayists like Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno.
Editorial decisions emphasize literary quality, translator expertise, and philological rigor; the house collaborates with translators who have worked on texts by Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Gustave Flaubert, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, T.S. Eliot, Pablo Neruda, Paul Celan, Rainer Maria Rilke, Anna Akhmatova, Bertolt Brecht, Fernando Pessoa, Italo Calvino, and Umberto Eco. Translation practices engage with rights negotiations involving agencies such as ICM Partners, CAA, Curtis Brown, William Morris Endeavor, and publishing houses including Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, S. Fischer Verlag, Gallimard, Einaudi, and Suhrkamp Verlag. Peer review, sensitivity reading, and collaboration with academic departments at Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi, and Ankara Üniversitesi inform editorial standards.
Titles and authors associated with the publisher have received national and international prizes and nominations tied to awards such as the Nobel Prize in Literature, Man Booker Prize, Prix Goncourt, Pulitzer Prize, International Booker Prize, Nieman Fellowship, Strega Prize, Premio Strega, Premio Cervantes, Franz Kafka Prize, Grinzane Cavour Prize, Prince of Asturias Award, National Book Award, Goncourt, PEN International recognitions, and Turkish prizes including the Orhan Kemal Novel Prize, Sait Faik Short Story Award, Yaşar Nabi Nayır Short Story Award, and Sedat Simavi Literature Award.
Operating as an independent publishing house headquartered in Istanbul, the press interacts with distributors, booksellers, and trade networks including Istanbul Book Fair, Frankfurt Book Fair, London Book Fair, Bologna Children's Book Fair, and BookExpo America. Corporate relations include partnerships and rights trading with Penguin Random House, Hachette Livre, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Grupo Planeta, Bertelsmann, Holtzbrinck, Kobo, Amazon Publishing, and regional Turkish distributors and retail chains such as D&R (bookstore), Remzi Kitabevi, İnkılap Kitabevi, and academic presses at Boğaziçi Üniversitesi and İstanbul Üniversitesi. The company structure blends editorial, production, rights, design, and distribution teams to maintain a broad catalogue across domestic and international markets.
Category:Book publishing companies of Turkey Category:Publishing companies established in 1981