In this episode, we feature the bestselling writer and physician, Abraham Verghese. This was his second appearance at Portland Arts and Lectures. He first joined us in 2012 to talk about his first ...

So opens chapter 60 of Abraham Verghese’s capacious new novel of modern India. The story begins in 1900 with the marriage of a 12-year-old village girl to a 40-year-old widower on the Malabar Coast of ...

Physician and author Abraham Verghese often says that every change in geography has shaped his destiny. His parents moved from Kerala to Ethiopia, where he was born. Later, as there was civil ...

Wondering who will landing in the UAE for the event? There’s American writer and phy-sician Abraham Verghese, who wrote Tanzanian-British novelist and academic Abdulrazak Gurnah , who won the ...