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About Pico Iyer
English-born essayist and novelist
Pico Iyer is an English-born essayist and novelist known chiefly for his travel writing. He is best known for books about crossing cultures and for essays shaped by life between places. His work includes Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk, and The Global Soul. He has also written for Time, Harper's, The New York Review of Books, and The New York Times, and his writing often returns to travel, identity, and cultural exchange.
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- “I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gypsy,' D.H. La…”Pico Iyer
- “The first time I stepped onto the rooftop of the Potala Palace in Lhasa in 1985, I felt, as never before or s…”Pico Iyer
Travel: more sayings
- “There are paths above the paths, the paths of the birds! There are paths above the paths of the birds, the pa…”Mehmet Murat ildan
- “I don't know about relationships. Maybe I'm supposed to travel and make films and meet people and have advent…”Alexandra Cassavetes
- “When I opened the curtains in the morning I saw the intersection of two six-lane highways. It was a comfortab…”Don Watson
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Books by Pico Iyer
The Open Road
2008
The Global Soul
2000
A Beginner's Guide to Japan
2019
Sun After Dark
2004
Cuba and the Night
1995