LEA S. CELIK
Lea Sultan Celik Sommerseth Shaw ISIK
Writer · Publisher · Filmmaker · Composer · Creative Director
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Lea's writing encompasses literary biography, cultural criticism, philosophy, music writing, historical reflection, children's literature and autobiographical research.
Recurring subjects include artists and writers, Mesopotamia and Anatolia, African and Afro-diasporic culture, Sanskrit and ancient languages, cinema, migration, spirituality, indigenous identity and the relationship between artistic creation and historical memory.
Selected Books & Literary Works LCSS INC (Postponed/Withdrawn Publications, Lea is seeking Official Representing Country to Launch)
Malcolm X
A literary and cultural study engaging with Malcolm X through questions of identity, displacement, political consciousness, history and cultural memory.
Tupac and the Echoes of Motherland
A meditation on Tupac Shakur, music, ancestry, exile and the continuing relationship between contemporary cultural expression and the idea of a lost or remembered homeland.
Cobain — The Bhagavad Gita
An interdisciplinary work placing Kurt Cobain in dialogue with philosophical and spiritual questions associated with the Bhagavad Gita, examining suffering, artistic consciousness, mortality and transcendence.
Marcello Di Fellini
A work inspired by Italian cinema and the cultural imagination surrounding Marcello Mastroianni and Federico Fellini, interweaving cinema, memory, European cultural life and autobiographical reflection.
Yaşar Kemal — Anatolian Tale
A literary reflection on Yaşar Kemal, Anatolian storytelling, landscape, oral tradition and the cultural memory of the peoples of Anatolia and Mesopotamia.
Sanskrit — Eternal Language
A work exploring Sanskrit through language, philosophy, textual archaeology and the survival of ancient intellectual traditions.
Pushkin — African Soul Of Russia
A literary-cultural study exploring Alexander Pushkin, ancestry, Russian literature, Africa and the complex geography of cultural identity.
Native Sun / Sol Nativo
A work concerned with ancestry, place, memory, indigenous belonging and the cultural meaning of homeland.
Celtic Anatolia
An investigation into cultural encounters, migrations and historical connections between Anatolia and the wider European world.
Rousseau and Babylon
A philosophical dialogue between European political thought and the ancient intellectual and civic inheritance associated with Mesopotamia.
Sacred Shadows — Bergman / Tarkovsky
A study of cinema as spiritual and philosophical language, centred upon the interior worlds, imagery and metaphysical concerns associated with Ingmar Bergman and Andrei Tarkovsky.
AfroBrasil
An interdisciplinary exploration of African and Brazilian cultural memory, music, migration and identity.
Göbekli Tepe and the Kurds of Anatolia
A work engaging with archaeology, cultural memory, indigenous history and competing interpretations of the ancient Anatolian landscape.
Silk Road
A cultural journey through the historic networks connecting Asia, Anatolia, the Middle East and Europe, approached through language, civilisation, trade, migration and artistic exchange.
Children of the Sun
A literary project examining inheritance, place, ancestry and the transmission of memory between generations.
New Found Land
A literary project associated with Celik's wider cinematic exploration of migration, settlement, landscape and the human search for a new homeland.
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
Alongside her adult writing, Lea has developed children's literature centred upon exploration, history, nature, friendship and cultural memory.
Celtic Scouts
A children's adventure series following Liam "The Scout" and his companions through landscapes of Celtic history, mythology and discovery.
Selected titles include:
The Adventure Begins
The Secret of the Ancient Oak
The Lost Golden Torc
The Mystery of the Standing Stones
The larger Celtic Scouts project has been conceived as an expandable literary and visual universe encompassing books, educational material and illustrated publishing.
South Africa Scouts / Navy Scout
An adventure concept featuring Tim and Kito, combining maritime exploration, ships, lighthouses, navigation, friendship and discovery.
A children's literary concept extending the Scouts universe into Mesopotamian history, imagination and speculative adventure, including The Meso Planet.