Aron Aji

Aron Aji is Director of MFA in Literary Translation at the University of Iowa. A native of Turkey, he has translated Karasu’s The Garden of Departed Cats and A Long Day’s Evening. Aji was president of the American Literary Translators Association between 2016 and 2019. He leads the Translation Workshop, and teaches courses on retranslation, poetry and translation, theory, and contemporary Turkish literature.