Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 7pm, Music Building, $20

O r h a n   P a m u k  
with Leonard Lopate

Orhan Pamuk is a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is the author of many novels that have been translated into English, including My Name Is Red, Snow, The Black Book, The New Life, The White Castle, and, most recently, The Museum of Innocence, which is forthcoming in the fall of 2009. The Times Literary Supplement has said: “Pamuk’s is an astonishing achievement…[He is] Turkey’s foremost novelist and one of the most interesting figures anywhere.” John Updike, writing in The New Yorker, has said: “Pamuk’s eminence…looms singularly. [His work is] conscience-ridden and carefully wrought, tonic in its scope, candor, and humor…with suspense at every dimpled vortex…. Pamuk in his dispassionate intelligence and arabesques of introspection suggests Proust.” Margaret Atwood, writing in The New York Times Book Review, has described Mr. Pamuk’s work as “not only an engrossing feat of tale-spinning, but essential reading for our times. [Pamuk is] narrating his country into being.” The Daily Telegraph has said: “…Pamuk uses his powers to show us the critical dilemmas of modern Turkey. How European a country is it? How can it respond to fundamentalist Islam? And how can an artist deal with these issues? The author’s high artistry and fierce politics take our minds further into the age’s crisis than any commentator could. Orhan Pamuk is the sort of writer for whom the Nobel Prize was invented.”

In addition to reading from his work, Mr. Pamuk will be interviewed by Leonard Lopate.

photo of Orhan Pamuk: Elena Siebert