Münzevi Adası

Finally, Büyükada has a novel.
While the Islanders may say: “Look, we have already been here”, [this is] a journey that will change even those who have never been there, into
Islanders...
Gündüz Vassaf, writer

It is truly extraordinary that a foreign writer would know Turkey's culture and people's mood so well and be able to describe them in a novel in
Turkish. I’ve enjoyed reading it and learned a lot. It is also extremely successful as literature.
Gün Zileli, writer

İrfan is like one of us... He speaks Turkish very well and is knowledgeable about Turkish music. He has created a very well-constructed and immersive
novel with the detailed information he provides about the islands. Congratulations Irfan.
Tahir Aydoğdu, kanun virtuoso

Istanbul in 2012: under the sign of the Last Judgment, three musicians – a dervish, an Alevite and an Armenian – seek refuge on the Princes‘ Isles, trying to overcome failure and lost love. Entangled in a mystery from the city’s Golden Age, their paths cross on a tragicomic expedition to find God’s messenger Hıdır and the island’s patron saint, George. Who is the “green man” of the southern slopes – and why has he unleashed the end of world?

Under his pen name, İrfan, Stefan Pohlit has brought together all the elements that normally inspire his music. From the characters’ spiritual quests to the legend of the Green Man and many nocturnal conversations among Istanbul’s Sufis, his novel “Hermit Island” draws on Anatolian philosophy and geography, based upon the holy scriptures, musical tuning circles, and collected oral sources. Publicized as a “postmodern apocalypse”, wrapped in mythological surrealism, the Princes’ Isles social history between 1960 and 1980 comes to life as literature for the first time. While the different story arcs revolve around Büyükada’s once famed “Robinson”, Franz Fischer, the fate of one single man is disguised and only revealed at the very end in the style of a Lynchian plot twist.

1. sıra: Adakademi (Adalar Sanat İnisiyatifi) 2022, Prof. Dr. Nesibe Özgül Turgay ile söyleşi sırasında
Kartal Kitap Fuarı 2021, kitabın editörü Serap İlhan Asan ile birlikte
Ksidas Kitabevi (Büyükada) 2021, Sayın Cevahir Karabulut ve Mösyö Mihail Paşa ile birlikte
2. sıra:TRT2 ve Anadolu Ajansı’nın kameraların önünde
Anadolu Ajansı tarafından çekilen bir portre
3. sıra:Adalar Kültür Derneği2021, Fadime Pohlit ve meşhur dalgıç Serço Ekşiyan ile birlikte
Mephisto Beyoğlu şubesindeki afiş
aktör ve yoldaş Mahmut Kelen ve reklam ajanı Uğur Ugan ile Franz Fischer’in kulübesinde