Nobel Laureate ORHAN PAMUK with Reza Aslan
Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Laureate
in Conversation with Reza Aslan
Presented by Levantine Cultural Center
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Date/Time:
Nov 5 2009 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Price:
$25 general
Where:
The Aratani/Japan America Theatre
244 South San Pedro Street Los Angeles, CA CA 90012 Box Office: 213.680.3700 www.jaccc.org |
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Orhan Pamuk in conversation with Reza Aslan is a rare treat indeed for Los Angeles. Orhan Pamuk is one of Turkey's most prominent novelists. He also the Robert Yik-Fong Tam Orhan Pamuk Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he teaches comparative literature and writin
 g. His work has sold over seven million books in more than fifty languages, making him the country's best-selling writer. Pamuk is the recipient of numerous literary awards, including the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature--the first Nobel Prize to be awarded to a Turkish citizen. Pamuk was born in Istanbul in 1952 and grew up in a wealthy yet declining bourgeois family; an experience he describes in passing in his novel The Black Book, as well as more thoroughly in his personal memoir Istanbul. From ages 22 to 30, Pamuk lived with his mother, writing his first novel and attempting to find a publisher. He describes himself as a cultural Muslim. His novel My Name Is RedHe is also the author of Snow--the November selection of the Levantine BookGroup, which meets on Wed., Nov. 4th at Levantine Cultural Center, 7:30 pm. Pamuk's most recent novel is The Museum of Innocence. He divides his time between New York and Istanbul. won the 2003 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
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In announcing the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy said of Orhan Pamuk: his "quest for the melancholic soul of his native city, Istanbul, led him to discover new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures." Pamuk reads from his new novel, The Museum of Innocence, and discusses his life and work with Reza Aslan (How to Win a Cosmic War). Signed copies of The Museum of Innocence, will be available for purchase courtesy of The Library Store.
Visit Orhan Pamuk's web site.
Reza Aslan, an internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religions, is a fellow at the University of Southern California's Center on Public Diplomacy and Middle East Analyst for CBS News. Aslan is cofounder and creative director of BoomGen Studios, a hub for creative content from and about the Middle East, as well as the Editorial Executive of Mecca.com, an on-line community for Muslim youth. He is on the national advisory board of Levantine Cultural Center. Born in Iran, he now lives in Los Angeles where he is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at University of California, Riverside. He is the author most recently of How to Win a Cosmic War, and of the bestseller, No god But God.
Visit Reza Aslan's web site.
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