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Michael David Lukas

Award-Winning, Best-Selling Author of:
The Oracle of Stamboul and
The Last Watchman of Old Cairo

BOOKS

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THE LAST WATCHMAN OF OLD CAIRO

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THE ORACLE OF STAMBOUL

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NON-FICTION AND OTHER WORK

Books

PRESS

"The prose is deeply evocative…but his greatest flair is in capturing the essence of that beautiful, haunted, shabby, beleaguered, yet still utterly sublime Middle Eastern city.”

LUCETTE LAGNADO, AUTHOR OF THE MAN IN THE WHITE SHARKSKIN SUIT

“Beguiling…Lukas veers from the tried-and-true, making The Oracle of Stamboul a novel that offers delightful surprises.”

JANE CIABATTARI, LOS ANGELES TIMES

“Lukas’s writing explodes with imaginative force and splendor.. [He] demonstrates in this novel his sublime ability to enchant us with unforgettable characters and moving stories that linger with us long after we have finished his magical book.”

ELAINE MARGOLIN, 
JERUSALEM POST

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ABOUT

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Michael David Lukas has been a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey, a night-shift proofreader in Tel Aviv, a student at the American University of Cairo, and a waiter at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in Vermont. Translated into more than a dozen languages, his first novel The Oracle of Stamboul was a finalist for the California Book Award, the NCIBA Book of the Year Award, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize. His second novel, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo, won the Sami Rohr Prize, the National Jewish Book Award, the Prix Interallié for Foreign Fiction, and the ALA’s Sophie Brody Medal. A graduate of Brown University and the University of Maryland, he is a recipient of scholarships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Montalvo Arts Center, New York State Summer Writers’ Institute, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and Elizabeth George Foundation. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Slate, National Geographic Traveler, and Georgia Review. He lives in Oakland and teaches at San Francisco State University.

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For media or event inquiries, please email mdlukas [at] yahoo [dot] com

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