Alexander Dawe

Alexander Dawe is a translator of Turkish literature into English, credited with the translation of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar's masterpiece The Time Regulation Institute. Long regarded as the standard English gateway to Tanpınar's comic masterpiece about time, bureaucracy and modernisation.

Dawe's work, produced through a long collaboration with regional scholars, rendered Tanpınar's dense Turkish prose into English that preserves both the satire and the melancholy. His translation, which accompanied the great wave of twenty-first-century interest in Turkish literature, is praised for its fluency and humour.