Orhan Pamuk is read about 1,301 times a day, in 115 languages.
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Something wrong?Turkey's best-selling novelist - 13 million books in 63 languages - and the country's first Nobel laureate. His willingness to write about contentious history once landed him in court for acknowledging the Armenian genocide.
A life in dates
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In their own words 10
, The question we writers are asked most often, the favorite question, is: Why do you write? I write because I have an innate need to write.
When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.
I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.
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Sibling: Şevket PamukAbout this person
Born in Istanbul on 7 June 1952, Orhan Pamuk built a body of work that includes The White Castle, The Black Book, My Name Is Red, and Snow. My Name Is Red swept major prizes: the 2002 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, the 2002 Premio Grinzane Cavour, and the 2003 International Dublin Literary Award. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006. That same willingness to address Turkey's contentious past - he publicly acknowledged the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire - drew a lawsuit in 2005; the case was initially dismissed, but in 2011 he was ordered to pay 6,000 liras for insulting honor. He co-founded the European Writers' Parliament with José Saramago and now teaches writing and comparative literature at Columbia as the Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities.
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