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Orhan Pamuk

Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul in 1952. He was raised in Nişantaşı in a crowded family, similar to the ones he depicted in his novels Cevdet Bey and His Sons and The Black Book. As recounted in his autobiographical work titled, "Istanbul” he painted intensively throughout his entire childhood, teenage years, and early adult life until the age of twenty-two, imagining that he would become an artist in the future. He graduated from Robert College in Istanbul and after studying architecture at Istanbul Technical University for three years, he realized he neither wanted become an architect, nor an artist, quit school, and went on to study journalism at Istanbul University. Deciding to be a novelist at twenty-three instead, Pamuk set everything else aside, confined himself to his house, and began writing. His first novel Cevdet Bey and His Sons in 1982 and received the Orhan Kemal Novel Award and the Milliyet Novel Prize. The following year, Pamuk released "The Silent House" and won Prix de la Découverte Européenne with the French translation o

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Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul in 1952 and grew up in a large family similar to those which he describes in his novels Cevdet Bey and His Sons and The Black Book, in the wealthy westernised district of Nisantasi. As he writes in his autobiographical book Istanbul, from his childhood until the age of 22 he devoted himself largely to painting and dreamed of becoming an artist. After graduating from the secular American Robert College in Istanbul, he studied architecture at Istanbul Technical University for three years, but abandoned the course when he gave up his ambition to become an architect and artist. He went on to graduate in journalism from Istanbul University, but never worked as a journalist. At the age of 23 Pamuk decided to become a novelist, and giving up everything else retreated into his flat and began to write.

His first novel Cevdet Bey and His Sons was published seven years later in 1982. The novel is the story of three generations of a wealthy Istanbul family living in Nisantasi, Pamuk's own home district. The novel was awarded both the Orhan Kemal and Mill

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Orhan Pamuk

Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born June 7, 1952) is a famous Nobel Prize-winning Turkishauthor. Pamuk is a post-modernist writer. He has won many writing awards around the world. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on October 12 2006, which made him the first Turkish person to win the Nobel Prize.

In 2005, he faced criminal charges because of comments he made in an interview. In the interview, Pamuk said about Armenian Genocide, "Thirty thousand Kurds, and a million Armenians were killed in these lands and nobody dares to talk about it." Pamuk faced a hate campaign and he had to flee the country. The charges were dropped in early 2006 under an influence of international movement of Amnesty International and European Parliament.

Bibliography in English

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The White Castle, translated by Victoria Holbrook, Manchester (UK): Carcanet Press Limited, 1990;, 1991; New York: George Braziller, 1991 [original title: Beyaz Kale]
The Black Book, translated by Güneli Gün, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994 [original title: Kara Kitap