Hakan Günday

The British Council will organize a meeting of celebrated writers from the United Kingdom and Turkey with their readers. 

The first of these meetings will bring together Hanif Kureishi, the screenwriter of the movie "My Beautiful Laundrette," which was nominated for an Oscar award, and Murathan Mungan, another venerated writer, at the Pera Museum on Feb. 18.  

One of the world's most prestigious literary awards, France's Le Prix Medicis Etranger, was presented to Turkish author Hakan Günday for his novel "Daha," which is about immigrants. The award is presented each year to the best foreign novel in France.