Pelin Kivrak
{{Short description|Turkish writer and literary scholar}}
Pelin Kivrak (born 1988) is a fiction writer and literary scholar from Turkey. She won the 2017 Yaşar Nabi Nayır Fiction Award with her first book, Hiçlikte İhtimal Var (There is Possibility in Nothingness).{{Cite web|url=https://complit.yale.edu/news/pelin-kivrak-has-won-2017-yasar-nabi-nayir-short-story-award|title=Pelin Kivrak has won the 2017 Yaşar Nabi Nayır Short Story Award | Department of Comparative Literature}}
Education
Kivrak graduated in 2007 from The Koc School in Istanbul, Turkey. She earned her BA in literature from Harvard University in 2011.
Career
After graduating from Harvard, she joined the creative team of The Museum of Innocence in Istanbul.{{Cite web|url=https://en.masumiyetmuzesi.org/page/acknowledgements|title = The Museum of Innocence}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/30/books/orhan-pamuk-opens-museum-based-on-his-novel-in-istanbul.html|title = Turkish Writer Opens Museum Based on Novel|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 29 April 2012|last1 = Kennedy|first1 = J. Michael}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.eclectica.org/v16n4/sniderman.html|title=Remembrance of Things Past: A Visit to Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence—Nonfiction by Alisa Sniderman—Eclectica Magazine v16n4}} Kivrak received her MPhil and MA from Yale University’s Comparative Literature Department in 2016. She earned her PhD also from Yale University in 2019 with a dissertation on representations of responsibility in contemporary literature and visual arts, and thereafter joined Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard as a postdoctoral fellow to conduct research on migration and public humanities.{{Cite web|url=https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/people/pelin-kivrak|title = Pelin Kivrak}}
Kivrak's first fiction book, Hiçlikte İhtimal Var, was published in November 2017 in Turkey after her manuscript received the annual Yaşar Nabi Nayır Fiction Award.{{Cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36660375-hi-likte-i-htimal-var|title=Hiçlikte İhtimal Var}} Politics/Letters Quarterly issued the English translation of the book's first short story, "Dust," in the spring of 2018. {{Cite web|url=http://quarterly.politicsslashletters.org/dust/|title = Dust|date = 28 May 2018}}
Kivrak regularly writes cultural criticism for the oldest monthly literature and arts journal in Turkey, Varlık. Her articles focus on topics such as mediocrity in contemporary art, disaster geographies and dark tourism, the rise of the novella, theories of readership, and the relationship between aesthetics and attention economies.{{Cite web|url=https://www.varlik.com.tr/varlikDergisi.aspx|title = Varlık Yayınları, Varlık Dergisi, Varlık Yayınevi}}
Kivrak is a member of Los-Angeles based Refik Anadol Studio, contributing research and curatorial support to multimedia art projects exhibited in the US and abroad.{{Cite web|url=https://refikanadolstudio.com/projects/|title=Projects}} {{Cite web|url=https://www.oneclub.org/awards/adcawards/-award/35812/machine-hallucination|title=Artechouse / Machine Hallucination}}
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