Suzan Samancı (b. 1962, Diyarbakır) is a Kurdish writer, novelist and short-story author whose work explores memory, identity, displacement and political violence. Writing in Turkish and Kurdish, she has published several acclaimed story collections and novels, including Reçine Kokuyordu Hêlin and Kıraç Dağlar Kar Tuttu, which won second prize in the 1997 Orhan Kemal Story Competition. Her work has been translated into numerous languages and published internationally. Samancı has lived in Geneva...