All These Things Aren't Really Lost

Ege Dundar is a graduate of International Politics at City University London and has been working at PEN International, a global NGO supporting writers at risk for over six years, most recently as youth engagement lead. There he organized local and global campaigns with PEN centres worldwide, founding the network Ilkyaz (Early Spring) to amplify young writers under 35 and Creative Witnesses, a solidarity series organizing artists to support those unjustly prosecuted. He co-authored a fable book titled Duvar (The Wall) with his father, Can Dundar, a renowned journalist unlawfully jailed in Turkey for his reporting. Although he was released with a Supreme Court decision, facing a gunman outside the courthouse as well as illegal confiscations of assets and passports, the family were eventually forced to leave the country. Ege was a Sunday columnist at Milliyet Daily, produced a report on Exile Media in Europe for Koerber Stiftung and hiswritings were published in outlets such as: BirGun, Le-Manyak, PEN Transmissions, Dw B and Bosla Arts. Dundaralso writes lyrics over compositions on piano and guitar, some of which are included in the debut collection.