Nedim Gürsel

[1] In 1979, he received his doctorate in comparative literature after completing his dissertation on Louis Aragon and Nazim Hikmet.

Although the Turkish authorities dismissed the charges against Gürsel, their actions made A Summer without End and The First Woman unavailable in Turkey for several years.

The book prompted the Turkish authorities to charge Gürsel with insulting religion.

[2] In 2019, he was the eleventh Friedrich Dürrenmatt Guest Professor for World Literature[5] at the University of Bern.

Today, a citizen of France, he teaches contemporary Turkish literature at the Sorbonne, and works as the research director on Turkish Literature at the International French Science Research Center (CNRS).