Ece Temelkuran is an award-winning Turkish novelist and political commentator, whose journalism has appeared in the Guardian, New York Times, New Statesman, Frankfurter Allgemeine and Der Spiegel. She won the Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book award for her novel Women Who Blow on Knots, and the Ambassador of New Europe Award. She has been twice recognised as Turkey’s most-read political columnist, and twice rated as one of the ten most influential people in social media (with three million twitter followers).
‘Highly readable and vibrates with outrage’ The Times, Hannah
Lucinda Smith ‘A brilliant analysis of how democracy can be starved
to death. It's one of the most important books anyone could read at
the moment, when public institutions are slowly being corrupted
wherever we look’ Philip Pullman ‘Temelkuran, a treasure of a
novelist, turns a nonfiction eye to the burning topic of today:
populism. Vivid, visionary, terrifyingly familiar, How To
Lose A Country is essential reading for everyone on planet
Earth’
Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Less ‘May be
the most important political book you read in 2019 … Her tone is
brave, deeply personal, witty, honest and melancholic in its
delivery, with the writer’s style leaning more toward emotional
humanism than cold-blooded rational political science’ The Globe
and Mail ‘This is a keenly observed and passionately written book.
Read it or be prepared to lose your country’
Rabih Alameddine 'The opponents of authoritarian populist and
nationalist regimes have often failed to foresee or effectively
resist their rise until it was too late. This highly informed and
original book is essential reading for anybody who wants to
understand the forces that are convulsing our world' Patrick
Cockburn, author of Rise of the Islamic State ‘Ece Temelkuran is a
passionate authentic voice whose fearless stand against
authoritarian incursion is inspiring. She writes with an urgent
conviction that has never been more important than now’ Tina
Brown
‘An important, current and, most importantly, very readable book
about the populist playbook and how it threatens to engulf us all’
Rick O’Shea 'A stunning, sane and intimate chronicle of a world
gone nuts. An urgent whisper in our ears about our modern dictators
and their collaborators. Ece has looked them in the eye, and is now
telling us we need talk' Mohammed Hanif
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