Since its founding in 1981 by Erdal Öz, author and leading Turkish literary figure, CAN Publishing has become the quintessential home of world literature in Turkey. Our publishing house has prided itself on bringing the essential works of modern and contemporary literary fiction to the Turkish readership. Names that have been famous all around the world have for many years reached the readers through CAN authors like Gabriel García Marquez, Albert Camus, George Orwell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Susan Sontag, Mario Vargas Llosa, Thomas Mann, Paul Auster, Salman Rushdie, Isabel Allende, Ingeborg Bachmann, Umberto Eco, Mo Yan, as well as many others.