MELINETOUMANI
Meline Toumani is a freelance writer and editor based in New York City. Her first book, There Was and There Was Not: A Journey Through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and Beyond, was published by Metropolitan Books in November and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She has written about politics, ideas, books, and music for The New York Times Sunday Magazine and culture pages, Harper's, The Nation, n+1, Salon, The Boston Globe, Newsday, GlobalPost, The National, and Travel + Leisure. As a foreign reporter, she has worked in Turkey, Armenia, Georgia and Russia. Currently, she teaches graduate students in the Goucher College low-residency MFA program in Creative Nonfiction.
In and , she was the coordinator of the Russian American Journalism Institute in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, and in she and was a journalism fellow in residence at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.
Her work has been anthologized in Istanbul: The Collected Traveler, and included in The New York Times Presents Smarter by Sunday: 52 W
MELINETOUMANI
Print and Online Interviews:
The Rumpus Interview read
Biographile: "A Tale of Two Countries" read
Shelf Awareness: "Genocide and Narrative Ambiguity" read
Kirkus Reviews: Cover story and interview read
BookSoup Blog: "5 Questions with Author Meline Toumani" read
The New School Writing Program's NBCC Awards Interviews: Q&A on the writing process read
Radio, Podcast, and TV Interviews:
The Kojo Nnamdi Show, WAMU Washington, D.C. listen
NPR Weekend Edition listen
The Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC New York, NY listen
A Public Affair (host Yuri Rashkin), WORT Madison, WI listen
Press Play (host Barbara Bogaev), KCRW Santa Monica, CA listen
The Monocle Weekly on Monocle 24 (starting at ), London, U.K. listen
To The Point (host Warren Olney), KCRW Santa Monica listen
The Sunday Edition (host Michael Enright), CBC Radio listen
Forum (host Michael Krasny), KQED San Francisco listen
Sunday (host Edward Stourton), BBC Radio 4 listen
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MELINETOUMANI
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
FINALIST FOR THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE
January 8, Interview with The Rumpusread
“Toumani’s emotional responses to her experience in Turkey, and her honesty in navigating and describing them, lend her story the authority that can come only from a storyteller who recognizes that history is a matter of both fact and feeling. Although this book offers plenty of insight — funny, affectionate, often frustrated — into a unique diasporic culture, Toumani is ultimately less interested in what makes a person Armenian, Turkish or anything else than in what can happen when we start to think beyond those national identities."
—Joanna Scutts, THE WASHINGTON POST
“[A] superb narrative Toumani, with admirable courage and the enviable skills of a more experienced historian, has written a memoir that delicately walks the line between the subjective nature of memoir and the objective details of the past.”
—Meganne Fabrega, THE STAR TRIBUNE
“There Was and There Was Not is a profound and nuanced work about what it costs to remember the past and what it costs trying to forget it
There Was And There Was Not
| There Was And There Was Not | |
|---|---|
| Author | Meline Toumani |
| ISBN | ISBN |
| Short Description | American-Armenian explores her Armenian experience and the place of Armenians in Turkey. Heavy genocide theme. |
| Format | Hardbound, Softbound, eBook |
| No. of Pages | |
| Language | English |
| Category | Biographies & Memoirs |
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Toumani's "There Was and There Was Not"
There Was and There Was Not: A Journey Through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and Beyond
By Meline Toumani Metropolitan. pp. $28
A Book Review/Personal Opinion
BY RAFFI MENESHIAN (Special to Asbarez)
Meline Toumani's "There Was and There Was Not: A Journey Through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and Beyond" is arguably one of the more critically acclaimed Armenian Genocide themed books to come along in years. It has been nominated as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awards in the category of autobiography and has garnered an impressive array of glowing reviews from publications ranging from The New York Times to The Economist. Having signed w
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