Maureen Deidre Freely was born on July 1952 and is an American novelist, professor, and translator.
12 Facts About Maureen Freely
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Maureen Freely has worked on the Warwick Writing Programme, University of Warwick, since 1996.
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Maureen Freely has a sister, Eileen, and a brother, Brendan.
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Maureen Freely is the mother of four children and two step-children.
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Maureen Freely lectures at the University of Warwick and is an occasional contributor to The Guardian and The Independent newspapers.
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Maureen Freely is the author of The Other Rebecca, a contemporary version of Daphne du Maurier's classic 1938 novel Rebecca.
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Maureen Freely is an occasional contributor to Cornucopia, a magazine about Turkey.
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Maureen Freely is best known as the Turkish-into-English translator of Orhan Pamuk's recent novels.
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Maureen Freely worked closely with Pamuk on these translations, because they often serve as the basis when his work is translated into other languages.
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Maureen Freely translated and wrote an introduction to Fethiye Cetin's 2008 memoir, My Grandmother.
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Maureen Freely went on to translate its sequel, The Grandchildren, as well as Tuba Candar's biography of the assassinated Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.
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Maureen Freely was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2012.