SEL PUBLISHING
WELCOME TO SEL PUBLISHING HOUSE
Sel Publishing was founded in 1990 and remains independent to this day. It defined its aim as providing the Turkish reader with both the original and translated literary works of contemporary writers. In the early 1990s, Turkey's social life was marked by significant political changes, transformations, and crises. And as SEL felt the necessity to determine its editorial view on those changes it published political and journalistic works on social matters like anti-democratic policies in Turkey including the problems faced by Kurdish people.
In the meantime, we developed an impressive list of World Literature by authors such as John Steinbeck, Truman Capote, Harper Lee, Georges Perec, Jonathan Franzen, William Golding, Elias Canetti, James Joyce, George Orwell, Nick Hornby, Marguerite Duras, Eduardo Galeano, Toni Morrison, Georges Bataille, William Burroughs, Norman Mailer, Boris Vian, Kathy Acker, Allen Ginsberg, Will Self, Pascal Quignard, Guillaume Apollinaire, J.G. Ballard, Jeanette Winterson, Frank O'Connor, Alain de Botton, Raymond Queneau, Miguel de Unamuno, Fernando Pessoa, Upton Sinclair... etc. along with distinguished Turkish authors. SEL is also publishing a considerable amount of outstanding examples of new voices from both Turkish and world literature.
SEL has also expanded its non-fiction list in time. It features humanities and social sciences, literary theory and criticism, politics, and philosophy and includes significant thinkers and authors such as Henri Lefebvre, Fredric Jameson, David Harvey, Roland Barthes, Raymond Williams, Eric Marty, Karen Horney, Tzvetan Todorov, Alain Badiou, David Graeber, Neil Smith, Pierre Bourdieu... etc. alongside with the new prominent titles and works to understand and act in today's world.
Sel Publishing is home to over 1000 books now and has mainly nine series: "Turkish and World Literature", "Human Sciences", "Art and Art History", "Women Studies", "LGBT and Queer Studies ", "Cultural History Books", "Resistance Books", "Literary Theory and Criticism", "Urban Studies".
SEL had been awarded Freedom of Thought and Speech Prize by Turkish Publishers Association and The Publishing House of Year by Memet Fuat Awards in 2009; Freedom to Publish Special Award by International Publishers Association (IPA) in 2010; The Publisher of the Year by Dunya Kitap Magazine in 2014.
SEL stands today as an important independent publisher for the cultural and intellectual life of Turkey with 85 new titles we publish every year.
Contact with us: Bilge Sancı / bilgesanci@selyayincilik.com
