Kaya Genç is a novelist and essayist from Istanbul. His writing has
appeared, mostly online but also in print, in The Paris Review, The
Believer, The Guardian, The Financial Times, The London Review of
Books, The New Republic, Prospect, Time, Salon, Guernica Magazine, Al
Jazeera English, Sight & Sound, New Humanist and The White Review,
among others. L'Avventura (Macera), his first novel, was published in
2008. Kaya has a PhD in English literature. He is the Istanbul
correspondent of The Believer and The Los Angeles Review of Books. He
is a contributing editor at Index on Censorship. Kaya is a frequent
commentator on Turkey related issues for the BBC. He is the author of
“An Istanbul Anthology: Travel Writing through the Ages” (American
University in Cairo Press, 2015). Kaya is working on his first English
novel. He is writing a history of Turkish literature for Harvard
University Press. His “Angry Young Turkey” will be published by
I.B.Tauris. In 2015, Kaya’s writing was picked by The Atlantic for
the magazine’s ‘best works of journalism in 2014’ list. He is
represented by Laurence Laluyaux at Rogers, Coleridge & White.
