Upon graduation in 1963, she married class-mate Alper Orhon, a Turkish Cypriot. Together, they went to the USA to further their studies: she with a Fulbright Scholorship and he with a grant from the Ford Foundation. Alatlı received her MA in Development Economics and Econometrics at Vanderbilt University in Nashville...

“JASMINES SMOKE NO MORE!”

This is the essentially true story of a Cypriot woman, born in the late 1930’s to Spiro and Afrodite, in the little village of Rizo Karpasso on the Karpas Peninsula, Cyprus. Christianed as Eleni Klo Morias in the Saint Andreas Monastery, where her father worked as the verger, she was to die thirty-two years later in Piraesus, Greece. Eleni was a very ordinary person; not bright, not clever, not curious, and hardly literate. She had no pressing nationalistic or religious sentiments, both of which, the nover argues, require conditioning by worldly knowledge and mental capability for speculation. Yet...

[Prof.Dr. Serpil Oppermann]

Back in 2003 teaching a Postmodern Novel course in the English Department of Dresden University some of my German students stood against the process of globalization during our class discussions on Postmodernism. Teaching the Postmodern theory and the exemplary novels I had chosen for this class I found myself facing the young minds in former East Germany who had adopted a questioning atitude to the Postmodern subversion of all conventions and values. With the desire to include Alev Alatlı’s Schrodinger’s Cat in class discussion that seemed to comply with my students’ stance, I set out to find its English translation....