Orhan Pamuk

The Museum of Innocence is set to appear both in hard covers and as an actual tourist destinationNobel prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk's new novel, The Museum of Innocence transports us from the pages of its 83 chapters to 83 displays of objects belonging to his fictional characters in his real-life Museum of Innocence expected to open in the summer of 2010 in Cukurcuma, Istanbul. The city, with its lost glory and memories of greatness past...  

"Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India" by William Dalrymple jumped one position to dominate the non-fiction section of the bestseller list this week while "The Museum of Innocence" by Nobel prize winner Orhan Pamuk retained its No.1...  

What author would you recommend to an individual whose favorite writer is Orhan Pamuk but who has already read all of his available works in English?  

Three Nobel prizewinners are in the running for the title of best translated bookNobel prize winners Orhan Pamuk and JMG Le Clézio are going head to head with last year's hottest translated author Roberto Bolaño for the title of 2010 best translated book.The prize, set up in 2007 to combat the lack of translated titles on "best of the year" lists, is run by the international literature website Three Percent, part of New York's University of...  

But Pamuk is a brave personality speaking out the truth, which has certainly proven risky as he had to seek refuge in New York. He was on the hit list of the Ergenekon gang, which some describe as a “fantasy.” For Pamuk, the Ergenekon gang is a ...  

"Orhan Pamuk interveiwOrhan Pamuk, the Turkish Nobel prizewinner, talks to Tom Leonard about why his new novel avoids politics in favour of exploring obsessive unrequited love"More:Orhan Pamuk interview - Telegraph  

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Nobel Laureate Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk said Turkish Government adopted a rough approach to the Kurdish issue. Pamuk who attended the "Charlie Rose Show" on american CBS channel, said one of the two fundamental conflicts in Turkey ...  

Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Orhan Pamuk. (28 minutes, 13 mb mp3) Orhan Pamuk in his six Norton Lectures at Harvard this fall filled the air with ideas about fiction. “The novel is not about the characters but about their world,” for example, part of the reason that Pamuk has never titled a [...]  

New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) 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. Here are the top 10 in the non-fiction and fiction categories: Non-fiction 1. “The [...]  

Just as Dostoyevsky did in critiquing a Russia that looked outward to Europe rather than inward to find its soul, Pamuk portrays an upper class that takes its cues from the West, while threatening to dislodge itself from its native culture.  

"Orhan Pamuk puts Tanpinar's tale of two continents back on the mapSixty years after it was first published, the 'Turkish Ulysses' finally gets its due, thanks to a literary festival and museum set up in its honour"More:Orhan Pamuk puts Tanpinar's tale of two continents back on the map | Books | guardian.co.uk  

Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk manages a staggering feat of character craft in The Museum Of Innocence, so thoroughly realizing what it’s like inside his protagonist’s claustrophobic head that when the story abruptly steps out of this perspective near the end, it’s like emerging from a dank cellar into the fresh air. And while Pamuk’s command of voice is peerless, it becomes so overpowering here that it overwhelms all the book’s other charms...  

If Europe is a Christian club built on the principles of nationalism and Christianity, Turkey has nothing to do there, Nobel Prize Laureate believes.  

"The Objects of the ExerciseIN ISTANBUL, one hot, sun-soaked day this past summer, the novelist Orhan Pamuk leaned back in his chair, a writerly throne in an overfull study, and looked out the window. He trained his eyes on the unblemished vista before him, where the Bosphorus, the Sea of Marmara and the Golden Horn run into one another and emerge as a perfect muddle of turquoise. Today, he announced, he was depressed. “I am a writer. I have...  

By Pico Iyer The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk, translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely Istanbul, with its many signs of the time when it was the center of the world, becomes something of a museum in the work of Orhan Pamuk, a writer clearly in love with memory itself, and his hometown, and everything that's been lost there. In his 2003 memoir, Istanbul, the five-story Pamuk Apartments in which he spent nearly all his first five...