Indian author Jeet Thayil's debut novel Narcopolis featured among five novels showcasing the diversity and depth of writing from Istanbul to Tokyo as the shortlist for the 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize was revealed, listing distinctive and celebrated writers for the first time in a region-wide context. ...
04:04 PM, Jan 09, 2013
Not everyone I have met who like reading, like Orhan Pamuk. They say they cannot get into his books. Of course. It is true. One needs a lot of patience and time on hand to be able to read and appreciate a Pamuk. The first time I started on was with, 'My Name is Red' and it took me two rereads to be able to understand the intricacies and his...
04:47 PM, Oct 08, 2012
New Delhi: It's not easy to describe the demeanour of Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk as he earnestly speaks about how books have shaped his spirit, jokes about how he wanted to be a painter, cleverly dodges a question on his love life and even shares his idea of the "ideal reader". The Nobel laureate is certainly not your flamboyant self-celebratory author types, neither is he those silent, intense types. He...
01:14 PM, Jan 28, 2011
Jaipur: Agitated by the categorisation often assigned to non-Western writers by the Western world, Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk feels non-English authors do not get better representation globally. The author, who did not seem to be in the best of humour during a discussion at the Jaipur Literature Festival, said that even an event like the one here was not a true representation of different voices in literature because it was...
02:45 PM, Jan 24, 2011
Jaipur: A growing concern to preserve vernacular and classical literature and to popularise it through translations is gradually occupying centre-stage at the sixth DSC Jaipur Literature Festival underway here. "The new generation has limited access to classical and vernacular literature because most of us speak English. Ask me to name one writer in Tamil, Punjabi or Hindi, I won't be able to. I would struggle to name one even in...
08:36 PM, Jan 22, 2011
Jaipur: There was Standing room only by the time Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk's session got underway on Day 1 of the Jaipur Literature Festival. And he certainly lived up to all the hype, and was surprisingly even funny. His girlfriend Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai, demure in the background, will be on a panel with him come Saturday. This festival is getting bigger each year. They are expecting 50...
11:15 AM, Jan 22, 2011
Jaipur: World-famous authors lost themselves amidst thousands of fans as Asia's largest literary event sprang colourfully to life on Friday, debunking criticism of the Jaipur Literature Festival's pretentious overtones. In speeches and debates in bright and airy yellow and green tents, authors, academics and book lovers shared jokes and swapped stories, as the pomposity alleged in a leading news magazine dissipated into the spring sunshine. An article in Open magazine...
08:48 AM, Jan 22, 2011
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It's impossible to sum up the Jaipur Literature Festival in a few words -- it's stunning, sun-drenched, sublime and chaotic all at once. You ...
06:54 PM, Jan 21, 2011
Jaipur: His characteristic literary style was born out of a quest to re-discover the roots of a diminishing Ottoman Islamic tradition in a westernising Turkey, but Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk believes one does not have to be rhetorical in wanting to preserve the historical culture of his birthplace. "What is my cultural tradition?" a young Pamuk was struck by this question while in the US where he was enormously impressed...
06:52 PM, Jan 21, 2011
Jaipur: JM Coetzee, Orhan Pamuk, Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, Junot Diaz, Martin Amis, Jay McInerney amongst the literary stars who converged at the landscaped lawns of the 17th century Diggy Palace in Jaipur, reflecting the eclectic spirit of the sixth edition of the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival, which promises to be the "biggest and the best". As they gathered for an informal dinner on Thursday night, they pledged to debate, discuss...
10:40 AM, Jan 21, 2011
Orhan Pamuk, JM Coetzee, Vikram Seth, Patrick French, Junot Diaz -- the list would please the lover of the written word. These and over 215 writers from India and the world, including seven Booker Prize and five Pulitzer Prize winners will hold centrestage at the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival scheduled between January 21 and 25. The five-day event that will unfold at Diggi Palace, will witness book readings, debates, performances,...
01:27 PM, Jan 17, 2011
New Delhi: India is high on literature. If 2010 saw the Kovalam Literature Festival grow bigger and the Hay Festival make its debut in Kerala, the start of 2011 will see a lavish shows of literary glitz in Jaipur when the city unveils its annual literature festival. Described by columnist Tina Brown of the Daily Beast as one of the biggest literary shows on earth, the sixth edition of the...
06:18 PM, Dec 18, 2010
Nobel Laureate Pamuk says he is very influenced by what he sees. ...
03:53 AM, Mar 07, 2009
Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk on Thursday won the 2006 Nobel prize for Literature. ...
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