An Evening With Orhan Pamuk ($10 admission ticket required)

Friday, Nov. 13, 7:30 p.m., Chapman Conference Center (Building 3, 2nd Floor, Room 3210)

 

Author(s) and Guest(s)

Orhan Pamuk

Orhan Pamuk, already Turkey’s most famous novelist, faced the threat of three years imprisonment in 2005 for the crime of criticizing Turkish denial of the 1915 Armenian genocide. Charges were dropped after a worldwide outcry from human rights groups and writers—John Updike, Umberto Eco and Gabriel Garcia Marquez among them. A year later Pamuk became the first Turkish author to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in 1952 to an Istanbul family similar to the one in his novels Cedvet Bey and His Sons and The Black Book, he studied architecture and journalism before becoming a full-time writer. He gained a growing international reputation with novels such as The White Castle, My Name is Red, Snow, and the memoir Istanbul: Memories and the City. Pamuk’s first novel since winning the Nobel Prize, The Museum of Innocence, is a soaring story of unrequited love set in Istanbul’s tumultuous 1970s. Pamuk, who lives in Istanbul, has taught at Columbia University, Bard College, the University of Iowa, and this summer lectured at Harvard.

Schedule
Friday, Nov. 13, 7:30 p.m. $10

Location

Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Chapman Conference Center (Building 3, 2nd Floor, Room 3210)

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