Journalist & Radio Producer in London + Istanbul In print, my first book, The Endless Country, out 27th June In audio, now on Today in Focus for @guardian
Joined April 2012
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To condense a dream into a tweet: my book, The Endless Country, is out in June 2024. A personal history of Turkey’s first 100 years - you can pre-order it now. Yikes.
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Yikes! Thanks judges - see you all in November!
The Endless Country: Sami Kent
This history of the first hundred years of the Republic of Turkey is told from the perspective of the author’s family. A vivid, colourful and often moving account of a tumultuous period in Turkey’s history
#HWACrowns25 10/27
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What an unexpected midweek treat to see The Endless Country nominated by @HistoriaHWA. Thank you so much to the judges!
The Endless Country:Sami Kent
This history of the first hundred years of the Republic of Turkey is told from the perspective of the author’s family. A vivid, colourful and often moving account of a tumultuous period in Turkey’s history
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You wouldn’t know - if you didn’t pay attention to how authoritarian countries actually work - the shades and textures of them, how they can move into darker places, become evermore brazen. Basically, how they can break the heart again and again and again.
It’s really disappointing to be misquoted in this recent @TheTLS review - and then ignored by the critic @alevadil after I pointed it out privately.
the-tls.co.uk/world/travel/t…
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Found this moving to watch, these last moments of Açık Radyo on air, a station I've listened to so much over the years, even played to my boy so he hears more Turkish at home. Good radio is rare, even more so in Turkey - what a shame to shut it down. But I'm sure it's not the end
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Writing a book, watching it go out into the world, it can be pretty lonely. So what a joy to receive a postcard - an actual printed thing - from a stranger who enjoyed it. Thank you T!
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It was a pleasure to work on this with @estheraddley, @helenpidd and @elidblock. And to meet Khalil in the end too
What a story to be able to tell - about migration, its sometimes tragic ends as well as its happier beginnings, and ultimately about the power of stories themselves
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‘Curious, emotional and partly unsettling’, but most importantly ‘recommended’. Thanks Merih!
Just finished reading Endless Country by @SamiKent. It’s been a curious, emotional and partly unsettling trip down memory lane, an episodic depiction of the history of “modern” Turkey that is. Refreshes one’s memory! Recommended.
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One podcast for you:
open.spotify.com/episode/0N0…
@tomphillipsin speaks to @helenpidd about Venezuela and the president who refuses to concede defeat.
With @RuthAbrahams5 and @RudiZygadlo. And, if we can say so ourselves, we think it's pretty good
And one for me:
open.spotify.com/episode/1Uz…
I talk to Anna-Joy Rickard about The Endless Country, my book on the history of Turkey, for the latest episode of the Great British Foreign Affairs Podcast
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I see it's the weightlifting finals in the Olympics, so let me share with you a chapter from my book, about perhaps the best weightlifter who ever lived. Naim Suleymanoglu, 'The Pocket Hercules', the 150cm lifter who could raise the weight of a small pony above his head...
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Thanks Isabella!
Dear Sami Kent, I just want to thank you so much for writing this book! I came across this book in a bookstore in Helsinki two weeks ago and have since been captivated by it! Next week I am going to visit my friend in Izmir. Thank you for writing it in a personal yet balanced way
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The story of a sham Russian trial, a sixteen year sentence, and a historic prisoner exchange. And one of a friendship too.
@PjotrSauer talks to @safimichael about his friend and journalist Evan Gershkovich.
Produced by @nataliektena and @RudiZygadlo
theguardian.com/news/audio/2…
Beyond creepy that, unprompted, as I start to cycle home, my phone suggests I send a message to my partner to let her know I’m on my way
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"Kent’s book concludes in the rather depressing present, but it nonetheless feels like a shaft of sunlight amid the gloom: an insightful, moving and beautifully crafted portrait of a nation"
I am so touched by this review in this month's @Lit_Review
literaryreview.co.uk/off-wit…
It is also so deeply satisfying to have your work reviewed by someone who knows what they're doing.
"This is a book of fathers and sons. The father looming largest is the Turkish state" - this observation by @AChristieMiller is so sharp...just wish I had made it myself.
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Surprised and delighted to find this review of The Endless Country this morning, in Bangladesh's Daily Star.
"A vivid and nuanced portrait of the nation"
Review of ‘The Endless Country’ (Picador, 2024) by Sami Kent
From Star Books & Literature
#Literature #BookReview
thedailystar.net/daily-star-…
I really enjoyed talking to my Kadıköy friend @hannahluci for this @intelligence2 podcast, about my book The Endless Country, and all things Turkey.
And apologies to my baba, who I said hadn’t read it. He has since…and cried buckets at the end.
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