Orhan Pamuk

Nobel prize winning writer Orhan Pamuk's "The Museum of Innocence" continued to dominate the bestseller list in the fiction category this week while "The Hindus: An Alternative History" by Wendy Doniger jumped three positions to top the non-fiction section. Read Full Story

Turkish Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk, Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa and Mexican author Carlos Fuentes will headline one of the world's largest book fairs this year. Raul Padilla, president of the Guadalajara International Book Fair, said Monday that 1,900 publishers and more than 500 authors and intellectuals will participate in the event. It runs from Nov. 28 to Dec. 6. American actor Tim Robbins is scheduled to direct a theatrical production of George Orwell's "1984" at the fair. And... Read Full Story

Turkish Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk, Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa and Mexican author Carlos Fuentes will headline one of the world's largest book fairs this year. Raul Padilla, president of the Guadalajara International Book Fair, said Monday that 1,900 publishers and more than 500 authors and intellectuals will participate in the event. It runs from Nov. 28 to Dec. 6. American actor Tim Robbins is scheduled to direct a theatrical production of George Orwell's "1984" at the fair. And... Read Full Story

Nobel Prize winning writer Orhan Pamuk's "The Museum of Innocence" tops the fiction list this week while Meghnad Desai's "The Rediscovery of India" leads the books in the non-fiction bestsellers. Read Full Story

Winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature Orhan Pamuk is a Nobel Prize-winning novelist and is the recipient of numerous national and international literary awards. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on October 2006, becoming the first Turkish person to receive a Nobel Prize. He is currently a Fellow with Columbia University’s Committee on Global Thought and holds an appointment in Columbia’s Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at The School of the Arts. “One of... Read Full Story

The Wall Street Journal had a great article last Friday: "How to Write a Great Novel" , reflections by 11 novelists on how they approach writing. Since the article is subscription only, I'll feature one writer per day here, highlighting their process with a key excerpt from the article. Today's writer is Orhan Pamuk whose novels include "Darkness and Light" and "Mr. Cedved and his Sons". Turkish novelist and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk often rewrites the first line of his novels 50 or 100... Read Full Story

At last week's Frankfurt book fair, where Turkey was this year's guest of honour, Orhan Pamuk used his keynote speech to alert the world to the fact that hundreds of writers continue to be prosecuted in Turkey. Numerous articles in the Turkish penal code make it an offence to insult Turkishness, the memory of Ataturk, the judiciary, or the army. He went on to lament the consequences: "A century of banning and burning books, of throwing writers into prison, killing them or branding them as... Read Full Story

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Orhan Pamuk, Turkey's Nobel Prize-winning author, said he may face new compensation claims for remarks he made about the World War One-era killing of Armenians, despite an earlier acquittal in a criminal trial, the Anatolian news agency said on Saturday. Turkey's Court of Appeals this week overturned a lower court decision that had dismissed the claims of personal damages against Pamuk, 56, paving the way for a new case. "I understand that I could be tried again, but... Read Full Story

FLASH NEWS.....FLASH NEWS.....FLASH NEWS.....FLASH NEWS.....FLASH NEWS..... Kurdish Leader Ahmet Turk, Osman Baydemir , Leyla Zana and Orhan Pamuk (below) have all been listed for assassination and the conspirators have all been detained.........................apparently! I luckily just came across this story that suggests a 'blow' to the Turkish 'Deep State'. Well, well. It would be a blow if these individuals including ex army officers, lawyers etc are brought before a court of law and... Read Full Story

Tags: Orhan Pamuk , Orhan Pamuk ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.—Internationally acclaimed Turkish author Orhan Pamuk, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2006 and writer in residence at Bard, gives a public lecture, "In Kars and Frankfurt," on Tuesday, November 13, at 7:00 p.m. in Olin Hall and teaches an open class on Tuesday, November 20, at 1:30 p.m. in room 115 of the Olin Language Center. These presentations, free and open to the public, are part of Norman Manea's 2007 fall series... Read Full Story