Nermin Mollaoglu is the founder and head of Kalem Literary Agency in Istanbul. Through Kalem she focuses on representing Turkish writers and works on promoting Turkish literature abroad and in other languages. She established the Istanbul International Literature Festival (ITEF) together with Mehmet Demirtas in 2009. Mollaoglu was chosen as the young publisher entrepreneur in Turkey in 2009 by British Council and awarded with the International Excellency for The Agencies in 2017 at London Book Fair.
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