Victoria Rowe Holbrook is an American scholar and translator of Turkish literature and language. She studied at Harvard and Princeton, obtaining a PhD from the latter in 1985. Her subject was Near Eastern Studies. She won numerous fellowships and research grants in her academic career. She was attached to Ohio State University from 1987 to 2005, also teaching at Bilkent University, Koç University, and Boğaziçi University in Turkey.[1]

Her book, The Unreadable Shores of Love: Turkish Modernity and Mystic Romance, won the Turkish Studies Association M. Fuat Köprülü Book Prize.

She is best known today for her translation of Orhan Pamuk's novel The White Castle, which won the inaugural Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Other translations include:

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  1. ^ "Fellows - Victoria Holbrook ('85-'87)". Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University. Retrieved 8 November 2020.