Word: pamuk
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...Harvard didn’t already have enough rockstar professors, we just managed to snag F. Orhan Pamuk, the famed Turkish novelist and Nobel Laureate, as Harvard’s Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer of the semester. The English Department’s new kid on the block will be giving guest talks on the art of the novel, which will be open to all at Sanders Theater. The Columbia professor, who splits his time between New York and Istanbul, sits down with FM to chat about Harvard, freedom of speech, and why winning isn’t everything...
...Orhan Pamuk: My lectures are focused on the art of the novel. They are from the point of view of the practitioner, not of the scholar or the historian...
...Charles Eliot Norton Lectures have been a Harvard tradition since 1926, and are now hosted by the Humanities Center. As he delivers the five remaining lectures, Pamuk will spend time on campus, and will even hold office hours, according to Director of the Humanities Center and Professor Homi K. Bhabha. All the lectures are held at 4 p.m. in Sanders Theater, and are free and open to the public. The next lecture will be September 29, and the final lecture will be delivered on November...
...Pamuk won the Nobel Prize in 2006. He has lived for many years in Istanbul, and is now a professor at Columbia University, where he teaches comparative literature and writing. His books have sold over seven million copies, and his statements on politics have generated much controversy, especially in Turkey...
...future lectures, Pamuk said he will return to Schiller, as well as examine various aspects of the novel. “Each sentence of a good novel evokes in us a sense of real, great knowledge of what it means to exists in this world,” he said, calling the process a search for a center. “In these talks, we will investigate how a novel can bear all this weight...