Images of the Syrian Desert Der Zor in Peter Balakian's recent works

Images of the Syrian Desert Der Zor in Peter Balakian's recent works

The lecture will be given in English

by

Peter Balakian

December 16, 18:30-20:00
AUA, Manoogian Hall

Free Admission

Speaker: Peter Balakian is the author of many books including the newly published book of poems Ziggurat (The University of Chicago Press, 2010) and June-tree: New and Selected Poems, 1974-2000 (HarperCollins 2001). His book The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response (HarperCollins, 2004), won the 2005 Raphael Lemkin Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book and a New York Times Best Seller. His memoir, Black Dog of Fate won the 1998 PEN/Martha Albrand Prize for the Art of the Memoir, and was a best book of the year for the New York Times, the LA Times, and Publisher’s Weekly, and was recently issued in a 10th anniversary edition. He is co-translator of  Girgoris Balakian’s Armenian Golgotha: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide 1915-1918 (Knopf, 2009).