Maureen Deidre Freely FRSL (born July 1952) is an American novelist, professor, and translator.
Four of her eight novels – The Life of the Party (1986), Enlightenment (2008), Sailing Through Byzantium (2013), and My Blue Peninsula (2023) – are set in Turkey.
[16] She went on to translate its sequel, The Grandchildren, as well as Tuba Çandar's biography of the assassinated Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.
Freely has also translated or co-translated 20th century Turkish classics by such authors as Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Sait Faik Abasıyanık, Sabahattin Ali, Suat Derviş, Sevgi Soysal, and Tezer Özlü.
[17] of Orhan Pamuk: of Fethiye Çetin: of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar: of Sait Faik Abasıyanık: of Sabahattin Ali: of Tuba Çandar: of Suat Derviş: of Sevgi Soysal: of Tezer Özlü: