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Elif Batuman (born in 1977) is an American author, academic, and journalist.[1]
Born in New York City to Turkish parents, she grew up in New Jersey. She graduated from Harvard College, and received her doctorate in comparative literature from Stanford University, where she taught.[2] While in graduate school, Batuman studied the Uzbek language in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Her dissertation, The Windmill and the Giant: Double-Entry Bookkeeping in the Novel,[3] is about the process of social research and solitary construction undertaken by novelists.[1]
In February, 2010, she published her first book, The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, based on material previously published in The New Yorker,[4] Harper's Magazine,[5] and n+1,[6][7] which details her experiences as a graduate student. Her writing has been described as "almost helplessly epigrammatical."[2]
She currently resides in Istanbul, Turkey, where she is the writer-in-residence at Koç University.[8]
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- ^ a b Slate review of "The Possessed"
- ^ a b New York Times review of "The Possessed"
- ^ I am a doctor.
- ^ New Yorker articles
- ^ Harper's Magazine articles
- ^ n+1 articles
- ^ 'The Meaning of Russia', Oxonian Review
- ^ Koç University writer-in-residence
- ^ Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award recipients
- ^ Whiting Writers' Award
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 Elif Batuman and Ben Greenman In Conversation Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed, and Ben Greenman, author of Celebrity Chekhov, discuss their books and more with Jewcy.com. |  n+1 Presents Lightning Rods (1/2) Part 1: Introduction and dramatic reading Presented in partnership with acclaimed literary magazine n+1, this evening featured a dramatic reading of scenes f... |  Jaipur Literature Festival : Conversation on The Global Shakespeare Jaipur Literature Festival is an annual literary festival taking place in the Indian city of Jaipur since 2006. Asia's biggest literary festival, it was desc... |  Elif Batuman& Geoff Dyer Q&A at Cúirt 2011 (Part 1) Galway City Arts Officer James C. Harrold chairs a Q&A session with authors Elif Batuman and Geoff Dyer at Cúirt International Festival of Literature, Galway... |  Elif Batuman at Cúirt 2011 Elif Batuman reads from her book: The Possessed, Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, at Cúirt International Festival of Literature, G... |  Elif on AK Part 1.m4v Strand Bookstore: Elif Batuman, Russophile and author of The Possessed, discusses what Tolstoy would have made of Ben H. Winters' treatment of Class III Robo... |  The NewYorker - Elif Batuman - BELOVED BEŞIKTAŞ The NewYorker - Elif Batuman - BELOVED BEŞIKTAŞ. |  Global Art Forum_7: (MENA) Middle East Nervous Anxiety_1 (Polemic by Elif Batuman) Where are we right now? Is it Near, Middle or Far? Where does it begin? Does it ever end? Writer and contributor to The New Yorker magazine, Elif Batuman. 17... |  JLF-13 : The Global Shakespeare(D1_MT_04) Christopher Ricks, Tim Supple, Elif Batuman, Chandrahas Choudhury and Anjum Hasan, moderated by Supriya Nair. |  Elif Batuman @ MWF 2010 Dog's Tales (UNOFFICIAL) Elif Batuman reads an excerpt of 'The Possessed' for Dog's Tales @ The Toff, a Melbourne Writers Festival 2010 event. |
 New Yorker (blog) |
New Yorker (blog)
Sat, 01 Jun 2013 11:39:41 -0700
Occupy Gezi: Police Against Protesters in Istanbul. Posted by Elif Batuman. Print; More. Share. Close. Reddit · Linked In · Email. occupy-istanbul-580.jpg. Gezi Park is a small rectangle of grass and trees just north of Taksim Square, in the center of ...
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New Yorker (blog)
Sat, 15 Jun 2013 08:49:11 -0700
(Elif Batuman reports from Taksim.) “Recently I have heard that a U.S. security official has said they do not accept this election. OK, the hell with you.”—Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after casting his ballot in the Presidential ...
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New Yorker (blog)
Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:37:44 -0700
Lost in Taksim Square. Posted by Elif Batuman. Print; More. Share. Close. Reddit · Linked In · Email. batuman-taksim.jpg. Just over two weeks ago, bulldozers came to raze Gezi Park, a green space in Istanbul's central Taksim Square. The park was to be ...
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New Yorker (blog)
Tue, 21 May 2013 10:16:54 -0700
“Two Rivers,” Carolyn Drake's upcoming book, is a photographic record of the area in Central Asia that follows the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya, the region's major rivers. Elif Batuman, a staff writer for The New Yorker, who wrote the text for the book ...
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Washington Post (blog)
Mon, 03 Jun 2013 11:00:48 -0700
Elif Batuman, writing for the New Yorker, provides a first-person update on the demonstrations in Istanbul. She suggests that the protesters in Gezi Park are upset about more than just a plan to raze some of its 606 trees. Lydia DePillis, at the New ...
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Financial Times
Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:58:08 -0700
In n+1, a New York-based journal of culture and politics, the writer Elif Batuman summarises the ambivalence to Moretti's work: “[His] concepts have all the irresistible magnetism of the diabolical.” For Moretti, however, “The use of technology to ...
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Jewish Daily Forward
Tue, 11 Jun 2013 10:00:07 -0700
“Brod always knew that he couldn't hold on to Kafka forever, but he never really faced up to it,” the writer Elif Batuman remarked in her account of the decades-long confusion over the fate of Kafka's manuscripts. Like every true reader of Kafka, Brod ...
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TIME
Mon, 03 Jun 2013 13:25:36 -0700
+ Here's an overview of the situation in Turkey from The New Yorker's Elif Batuman. “The feeling of unreality and disconnect is at the heart of the Gezi demonstrations. Istanbul loves to demonstrate … usually, they are small, peaceful, and self ...
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