Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk, the 2006 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature, is the author of ten novels and the memoir Istanbul. One of Europe’s most prominent novelists, his work has been translated into over sixty languages. Pamuk’s novels are most frequently set in Istanbul – where the author was born and where he still lives – a bustling, vibrant, hybrid city, poised sometimes uncomfortably between Europe and the Middle East, history and modernity, Western-style liberalism and Islamic conservatism, adaptation and tradition. His fiction, much of which explores the fluidity of identity, is heavily influenced by both Western and Arabic literature. At once a local and a global writer, he has an enormous international readership.
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Essays & Memoir | Issue 149
Orhan Pamuk | On Europe
Orhan Pamuk
‘In the part of the world where I come from, Europe is not just an ideal and a beautiful dream’ Translated from the Turkish by Ekin Oklap.
Fiction | Issue 149
A Religious Conversation
Orhan Pamuk
‘"Hello, sir. Do you recognize me?" "No, I'm afraid I don't."’
In Conversation | Issue 149
Orhan Pamuk | Interview
Orhan Pamuk & John Freeman
‘Orhan Pamuk speaks to Granta editor John Freeman about his latest book, The Museum of Innocence.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 149
Famous People
Orhan Pamuk
‘Life is dull if there's no story to listen to or nothing to watch’.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 61
The Boy Who Watched the Ships Go By
Orhan Pamuk
‘For the last thirty years I've been keeping track of the ships that sail through the Bosporus.’