Regaip Minareci

Regaip Minareci has been granted the 2023 Talât Sait Halman Translation Award for his exceptional ability to convey the striking and experimental structure of Jenny Erpenbeck’s novel Kairos into Turkish.

Regaip Minareci was born in Istanbul in 1955. After completing his secondary education in Munich, he studied electronic engineering at the Technical University of Munich. He began his professional career as a translator in 1977 in Hürriyet Group. Over the years, he held administrative roles at various publishing organisations, serving as editor, managing editor, publishing director, and publishing coordinator. A prolific translator of numerous classical and contemporary works from German into Turkish, Minareci is also a recipient of the Austrian State Prize for Literary Translation.

Selection Committee

Doğan Hızlan, author (Chair)
Sevin Okyay, author, translator, and critic
Ayşe Sarısayın, author and translator
Yiğit Bener, author and translator
Kaya Genç, author and translator

Kairos. (Kairos)

Author: Jenny Erpenbeck
Translator: Regaip Minareci
Publisher: Can Yayınları
Original title: Kairos.
First edition in Turkish: 2023