Expressing the inexpressible

Çiler Ilhan writes about what most writers avoid: the maltreatment of women - and of dogs - family feuds fuelled by government policy, the suffering of children...For her first collection of short stories (Exile, Istros 2015), she was awarded the EU Prize for Literature. With her latest novella, Engagement, she delves into the mechanisms at work behind a massacre which took place in the east of Turkey, in Mardin, in 2009. Lana Lazarevski finds out what motivates her unwavering gaze....