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I used to draw for the Turkish humor magazine Leman many years ago. Things developed organically, one thing followed another. Honestly I didn't have a very clear plan. Did you always plan to publish that way round? But it sold very well in Turkey and now it has been translated into Turkish. “Dare to Disappoint” was first published in English last year. Samancı sat down to speak with the Hürriyet Daily News about her book, how she created it, and her plans for the future. A Turkish language version is due to be published soon. It’s a charming formula that became a bestseller in Turkey after being published in English last year. The book (reviewed in HDN here) is light-hearted in tone, but its simple drawings of Samancı’s trials and tribulations also cleverly reflect on Turkey’s broader modern history. Özge Samancı’s graphic memoir, “Dare to Disappoint: Growing up in Turkey” is an ostensibly simple graphic memoir about growing up in a lower-middle class family in İzmir, her life at boarding school, and her later time studying maths at Istanbul’s prestigious Bosphorus University. Sometimes modest ideas can be deceptively sophisticated. INTERVIEW: Özge Samancı on ‘Dare to Disappoint: Growing up in Turkey’ William Armstrong - credit: Farrar, Straus and Giroux