Louis Sudler Prize

Eren Orbey

Eren Orbey of Jonathan Edwards College is a writer whose work shows intellectual rigor, emotional depth, and stylistic grace. While double-majoring in Computer Science and English, with a Concentration in Creative Nonfiction, Eren has contributed eighteen essays and profiles to The New Yorker, with topics ranging from personal history to contemporary photography to women’s gymnastics. With courage and beauty, his creative thesis, the basis of a planned book-length memoir, addressed the impact of a devastating family tragedy and entailed travel to Ankara, Turkey; the reading of hundreds of pages of depositions, legal transcripts, and police reports; and profound self-examination.

Eren graduates magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with distinction in the both of his majors. He will pursue graduate studies in Modern Middle Eastern Studies at Oxford next year as a Rhodes Scholar.

For his extraordinary literary gifts and his promise as a writer, Yale College is honored to award the Louis Sudler Prize for Excellence in the Performing and Creative Arts to Eren Orbey.