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Elif Batuman & Geoff Dyer
Event Starts: 15 Apr 11 14:30
Event Ends: 15 Apr 11 15:30
Venue: Druid Theatre
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Elif Batuman & Geoff Dyer
Elif Batuman, born in 1977 in New York City, is an American author, academic, and journalist. She graduated from Harvard College, and received her doctorate in Comparative Literature from Stanford University, where she taught. In 2007, she was the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and in February 2010, she published her first book: The Possessed: Adventures with Russian books and the people who read them. Elif has also been published in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times, The Guardian, The London Review of Books and The Paris Review Daily. She is currently the writer-in-residence at Koc University, Istanbul.
Praise for The Possessed:
‘A deeply clever and very funny collection of essays: half memoir, half love-letter to the Russian literary greats. The book has been feted in America: Slate called it a “cross between Borges and Borat” while the New York Times said the essays “unfold comically and intellectually as if Ms Batuman were channelling Janet Malcolm by way of Woody Allen”. Expect similar raves here’.-The Guardian.
Geoff Dyer is the author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi and three previous novels, as well as seven other non-fiction books. Dyer has won the Somerset Maugham Prize, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, a National Book Critic’s Circle Award, a Lannan Literary Award and the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ E. M. Forster Award. His new book Working the Room is an effervescent guide through a maze of literature, art, photography, music and contemporary culture. In 2009 Dyer was given GQ’s ‘Writer of the Year’ Award. He lives in London.
‘Geoff Dyer is a true original - one of those rare voices in contemporary literature that never ceases to surprise, disturb and delight. Risky, breathtakingly candid, intellectual, cool, outrageous, laconic and sometimes shocking, Dyer is a must-read for our confused and perplexing times.’-William Boyd
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