canan marasligil
canan marasligil

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Canan “Ja’anan” Marasligil (she/they) is a multilingual writer, artist, literary translator based in Amsterdam.

She publishes a newsletter and podcast titled The Attention Span, where they can take the time to reflect, to analyse and to imagine our societies through writing, art and culture.


Newly Published


The Protagonist of the Erotic: on Anne Carson

20 years ago, I wrote my Master’s thesis on translating Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red: a Novel in Verse. In Spring 2023, I penned an essay for Extra Extra Magazine “Anne Carson In Sensual Gestures”: one version in print, and another one for the podcast The Protagonist of the Erotic, which I have embedded below. Although they both are written from a translator’s perspective, they are different, so do read and listen if you can.