Flame-Dried Figs

Catherine Yiğit – Irish writer living in Turkey

Scorched leaves and flame-dried figs on a fig tree with a light blue sky behind

The Interface of Climate, Landscape and People

  • A New Old Hobby

    It seems again that it is time to learn,In this untiring, crumbling place of growth Mirror In February – Thomas Kinsella Another birthday, another autumn. Another slightly impulsive leap into yet another hobby. This time I bought a cross stitch set and some books. This is a hobby I’ve had some success with in the…

  • Restoration or Something Else

    A trip to a Kemerdere with Pat Yale and how it looks after its renovation.

  • Celebrate All the Things

    Finally, after years of pointless hoping, I finally entered the Novel Fair run by the Irish Writer’s Centre.

  • Following Miss Yale

    A number of years ago my friend Pat came to visit Çanakkale. I was delighted to be able to take her to Troy and show her around the area.

  • Aspiration

    Generally at the beginning of August each year I decide to enter the Novel Fair run by the Irish Writers Centre. It only requires a summary of 300 words and 10,000 words. The fact that I have no idea, no plot, no characters, is never enough to dissuade me from the attempt. There’s a whole…

  • Lower Decks

    What a delight! Funny, madcap, weird and yet still true to Star Trek. Boimler is just the right amount of annoying, Mariner is just the right amount of slacker. Tendi has a core of steel and Rutherford is sweet.

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An ancient aqueduct spans a gorge
Wooden replica of the Wooden Horse of Troy at the entrance to the archaeological site; the head of the wooden horse is silhouetted against a pale blue sky.
A grove of oak trees on dry grass
A restored aqueduct viewed from the top of the gorge

This is how it all started…

Catherine Yiğit is a writer living near the ancient city of Troy in northwestern Turkey. She arrived in Turkey from Ireland on a roundabout route which circumnavigated the globe. Arriving without a word of the language, she began writing as a way to freely express herself and explore her new life.

She was fortunate to contribute to two anthologies written by foreign women with connections to Turkey. Overcoming her language difficulties, Catherine has worked as a translator and editor for academic papers for the last decade.

She is currently editing a near-future science fiction novel set in Western Turkey and writing her work-in-progress.

A woman with short brown hair and glasses stands in front of stacked logs

Catherine Yiğit

Writer, Translator & Editor