Orhan Pamuk

Meghnad Desai's "The Rediscovery of India" continued to dominate the non-fiction section of the bestseller list this week while "The Museum of Innocence" by Nobel prize winner Orhan Pamuk retained the No.1 position in the fiction category. The top...  

The Museum of Innocence By Orhan Pamuk (Alfred A. Knopf; $28.95; 536 pages) Nobel Prize-winning Orhan Pamuk's new novel begins in 1975, when Kemal, 30-year-old scion of a wealthy Istanbul family, is engaged to the lovely (also wealthy) Sibel. By chance he...  

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 [...]  

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.  

'What The Dog Saw' dominates the bestselling non-fiction category this week while 'The Museum of Innocence' by Nobel prize winner Orhan Pamuk retains the number one position in the fiction section.  

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...  

"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  

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

It was Orhan Pamuk's first L.A. visit. The Turkish native, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006, has taught in New York without making it here -- until he appear at an L.A. Public Library ALOUD event earlier...  

"Orhan Pamuk's L.A. stroll conjures up familiar sightsThe Nobel Prize-winning author and self-proclaimed 'Istanbul boy,' feels a familiar bond with Los Angeles' old-fashioned urban scape.Just a few hours before Orhan Pamuk, the 2006 Nobel Laureate in literature, was set to read from his new novel, "The Museum of Innocence" (Alfred A. Knopf: 540 pp., $28.95), at the Japan America Theatre, the lifelong Istanbul resident was strolling down Hill...  

Kemal, the lovelorn pro­tagonist of Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk's new novel, is a sort of Gatsby on the Bosphorus. He is upper­crust, cringe-inducing and, of course, harbors an obses­sion with a woman he can never really have.  

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...  

MONDAY: We never needed the Nobel committee to tell us Orhan Pamuk was brilliant. But yes, the Turkish author did win the Literature prize two years ago. He's back with a new novel, "The Museum of Innocence," and he'll tell you about his life and inspiration at the National Museum of Natural History. » National Museum of Natural History, Baird Auditorium, 10th Street and Constitution Avenue NW; Mon., Nov. 23, 6:45 p.m., $25, students $10...  

«The Museum of Innocence» tells the story of Kemal and his distant relative Fusun, whom he loves  

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...