NORTON LECTURES
The Humanities Center presents The Norton Lectures
Orhan Pamuk "The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist" A series of six lectures beginning on September 22 
Orhan Pamuk
Winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature
Lecture 1: "What Happens to Us as We Read Novels"
Tuesday, September 22, 4:00 p.m.
Lecture 2: "Mr. Pamuk, Did You Really Live All This?"
Tuesday, September 29, 4:00 p.m.
Lecture 3: "Character, Time, Plot"
Tuesday, October 13, 4:00 p.m.
Lecture 4: "Pictures and Things"
Tuesday, October 20, 4:00 p.m.
Lecture 5: "Museums and Novels"
Monday, October 26, 4:00 p.m.
Lecture 6: "The Center"
Tuesday, November 3, 4:00 p.m.
All six lectures are in Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy Street.
Doors open at 3:30 p.m.
Open to the public. No tickets required. Seating is limited.
Orhan Pamuk, the celebrated novelist and Nobel laureate, is the author of eleven books, including Cevdet Bey and His Sons (1982), The White Castle (1985), The Black Book (1990), My Name Is Red (1998), and Istanbul (2002). He has written both fiction and non-fiction, focusing on contemporary life and history in his native Turkey as well as the political tensions of the region. His novel Snow, which tells of violent conflict between secularist and Islamic politics, was selected as one of the 100 best books of 2004 by The New York Times. Pamuk's most recent novel, The Museum of Innocence (2008), is a stirring exploration of the nature of romantic attachment and of the mysterious allure of collecting.
In 2006, Pamuk was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming one of the youngest recipients in the prize's history. The prize announcement described him as a writer who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures.
Pamuk's books have been translated into 56 languages. He is an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Chinese Academy for Social Sciences, and he holds honorary degrees from the Free University of Berlin, the University of Madrid, Georgetown University, and the University of Florence. He was born in Istanbul in 1952.
The Charles Eliot Norton Professorship in Poetry was endowed in 1925 by C.C. Stillman (Harvard 1898). Incumbents are in residence through their tenure of the Chair, and deliver at least six lectures. The term "poetry" is interpreted in the broadest sense, including all poetic expression in language, music, or fine arts. Previous holders of the Chair include Gilbert Murray (1926-27), T.S. Eliot (1932-33), Igor Stravinsky (1939-40), Paul Hindemith (1949-50), Ben Shahn (1956-57), Leonard Bernstein (1972-73), Frank Stella (1982-84), John Cage (1988-89), and Luciano Berio (1992-93).
For more information about selected past lectures:
T.S. Eliot, 1932-33
Igor Stravinsky, 1939-40
e.e. cummings, 1952-53
Jorge Luis Borges, 1967-68
Lionel Triling, 1969-70
Leonard Bernstein, 1972-73 (For audio excerpts, click here.)
Czeslaw Miosz, 1981-82
Italo Calvino, 1985-86
John Cage, 1988-89
John Ashbery, 1989-90
Nadine Gordimer, 1994-95
George Steiner, 2001-02
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