Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" published in Kurdish
RastinewsAgatha Christie's celebrated novel "Murder on the Orient Express" (Kuştina di Ekspresa Rojhilatê de) has been translated into Kurdish. Dibar Çelik translated the book from English, and Pall Weşan published it. Agatha Christie is known as the "Queen of Crime Fiction," and this novel is regarded as one of the genre's great masterpieces.
Back cover blurb
A harsh winter, snow as far as the eye can see. Past midnight, the Orient Express gets stuck in snowdrifts and cannot continue its journey. Unusually crowded and busy for the season, the luxury train is shaken by an incident at first light: an American businessman is found stabbed twelve times in his compartment, its door locked from the inside. Detective Hercule Poirot, travelling from Aleppo back to London, happens to be on the train at the time. The task falls to Poirot to solve the case. Can he trace the murder and work out who killed the man, and why?
Books by Agatha Christie, known as the queen of crime fiction, have sold more than two billion copies including translations and have been rendered into over 100 languages. First published in 1934 and regarded as one of the cult novels of crime fiction, "Murder on the Orient Express" draws readers into corridors full of secrets and surprises through Dibar Çelik's translation.
Agatha Christie
Born in 1890, she was an English novelist, playwright and short-story writer known worldwide as the "Queen of Crime Fiction." She created the famous detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She is best known for 66 crime novels, 14 short-story collections and The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the world. Writing under the pen name Mary Westmacott, she also produced six novels. Her books have sold more than one billion copies in English and more than one billion more through translations into over 100 languages. After the Bible and Shakespeare, she is the best-selling author of all time in any language. Her best-known works include "Murder on the Orient Express," "And Then There Were None," "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd," "The Murder at the Vicarage" and "Death on the Nile." She died in 1976.
Who is Dibar Çelik?
Çelik is a translator and translation scholar. Born in Semsûr in 1982, she earned her bachelor's degree in English Language Teaching from the Middle East Technical University (METU), a master's degree from Okan University, and a PhD in translation studies from Boğaziçi University. She had previously translated Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" (Girava Gencîneyê, 2010, Lîs) from English. Her latest work, "Translators' Formative Agency in the Periodical Hawar (1932-1943): The Making of a Kurdish Cultural Identity" (2025), was published by Brill and won the Serbest Best Book Award in Humanities in Kurdish Studies (2026). She currently continues her academic work at the University of Rouen in France.
The book can be ordered through pallwesan.com.