Complete list of past appearances and interviews »
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Summer 2008 INTERVIEWER: Did the war have any impact on your decision to write? ECO: No, there is no direct connection. I had started writing before the war, independently of the war. As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa. I was a perfectionist and wanted to make them look as though they had been printed, so I wrote them in capital letters and made up title pages, summaries, illustrations. Read More » |
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Spring 2007 INTERVIEWER: In your books you discuss the paradoxical nature of pleasure as something that might have reconnected you to life after the camp but which in fact drew you back to the memory of death. SEMPRÚN: Yes, pleasure was, in reality, the complete opposite of oblivion. I could see the shadow of Buchenwald in the gaze of the girls who looked at me after I’d left the camp. And so to me pleasure became, to put it bluntly, a reminder of the life I had stolen from others. The sheer guilt of being in the world, of having survived the collective hell of the camp. Read More » |
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April 19, 2006 Read about the New York Public Library presentation of Lila Azam Zanganeh's book, with Shirin Neshat, Lila Azam Zanganeh, Roya Hakakian, Azar Nafisi, (pictured top to bottom here), Sussan Deyhim, Soraya Broukhim and Azadeh Moaveni. This event was co-sponsored by PEN American Center. A CONVERSATION A DISCUSSION A READING MUSIC |
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APRIL 9, 2006 Uncensored Iranian Voices Over the weekend of April 9, The Levantine Cultural Center hosted several young Iranian intellectuals at Pacific Arts Center. Lila Azam Zanganeh, editor of the Uncensored Iranian Voices anthology, spoke with No god but God author Reza Aslan about the path to peace and democracy in Iran. Sholeh Wolpé moderated the discussion. |
Lila participated in the PEN World Voices Festival 2010 in New York City from April 26 to May 2. View Lila's author page at PEN.org.
Nabokov, or The Invention of Happiness will appear in 2011 in the US, the UK, France and Holland.
Lila took part in the panel Lolita in America in New York this fall, and discussed the burning of books in a talk titled "Destroy and Forget: The Secret of Durable Pigments." Read an overview of the conference.
Read Lila's articles on Nabokov's unfinished last novel, The Original of Laura:
Lila is interviewed by Anna Clark at the Center for New Words.