Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk's 1983 novel Silent House is being released in English for the first time this week. All Things Considered host Robert Siegel talks with the Nobel Laureate about what took ...
Isolation from the outside world has driven some of Orhan Pamuk’s most important works. In The White Castle (1985), an Ottoman pasha and his Venetian slave in the seventeenth century retreat to a ...
When Orhan Pamuk received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006, he was 54, the second youngest recipient in the history of the award. Since then he has written two novels that have been published in ...
The Turkish author Orhan Pamuk, whose trial on charges of "insulting Turkishness" was dropped earlier this year, has won the 2006 Nobel prize for literature. The Swedish Academy praised the author's ...
"When my sales went up my welcome from the Turkish literary scene disappeared" Istanbul, Turkey From an American school in Istanbul Pamuk went on to study architecture at Istanbul Technical University ...
Orhan Pamuk’s recent protagonists—sensitive, saturnine, stupid men—love as if their entire lives depend on it, and Mevlut Karataş is no exception. Mevlut, a street vendor whose life story animates ...
Pamuk teaches that the skills honed in reading and writing novels underlie the European ideals of enlightenment, equality, and democracy. But “certain politicians” in Europe, nationalistic and ...
Spread from Orhan Pamuk's 2024 book, Memories of Distant Mountains: Illustrated Notebooks, 2009-2022 (© 2024 Orhan Pamuk; excerpted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf ...
Renowned Turkish writer and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk has been awarded the Yasnaya Polyana literary prize for the Russian translation of his novel "A Strangeness in My Mind." On Feb. 24 Pamuk came to ...
In 2012, Orhan Pamuk, Turkey’s only Nobel laureate in literature, opened his Museum of Innocence in a 19th century wooden house in Istanbul. A real museum of imaginary lives, it contains 1,000 objects ...
Unrequited love makes fools of many of us. Even so, is it normal behaviour to collect 4,213 of your beloved’s cigarette butts – to say nothing of 237 hair clips, 419 lottery tickets and hundreds of ...