Iyer, Pico

About Pico Iyer

Audio and Audiovisual Material

"Pico Iyer: The Global Soul: Searching for Home and Self in a Fast-Moving World." In this talk, Pico Iyer reflects on the meaning of constancy in a dizzyingly mobile village. He also reads from his new book, Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls and the Search for Home. On UCTV in 2001.

Scott London talks with Pico Iyer about the emerging global culture of the 21st century (from the radio series "Insight & Outlook"). You can listento theaudio document here.

British-born essayist and novelist Pico Iyer drops by to chat with host David Starkey of The Creative Communityabout his recent book "The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama" and his fascinating encounter with the current Dalai Lama.  Taped on 07.1.2009 by The Santa Barbara Channels.

Travel writer Pico Iyer talks about his own work and the life, work, and politics of the Dalai Lama, who has been living in exile in India for the past 50 years. Mr. Iyer, who has known the Dalai Lama for over 30 years, spoke at an event hosted by the Asia Society of Washington, DC. On BookTV. 

USEFUL SOURCES

Biographies:

Contemporary Writers

Dictionary of Literary Biography

Literary Reference Center

A Dictionary of Writers

Plot Summaries

 Kindlers Literatur Lexikon  

Literary Reference Center

Secondary Literature:

see Research Section

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