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Orhan Pamuk

Author of My Name Is Red

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About the Author

Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul, Turkey on June 7, 1952. After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul, he studied architecture at the Istanbul Technical University. After three years, he decided to become a writer and graduated from the Institute of Journalism at the University of Istanbul in show more 1976. In 1982, he published his first novel Cevdet Bey and His Sons, which received both the Orhan Kemal and Milliyet literary prizes. His novel, My Name Is Red, won the French Prix Du Meilleur Livre Etranger, the 2002 Italian Grinzane Cavour, and the 2003 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He has received numerous Turkish and international literary awards for his works including the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. His recent work includes A Strangeness in My Mind. (Bowker Author Biography) Orhan Pamuk is the author of six previous novels, including "The White Castle" & "The New Life". He lives in Istanbul with his family. (Publisher Provided) show less
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Works by Orhan Pamuk

My Name Is Red (1998) 7,009 copies
Snow (2002) 6,992 copies
Istanbul: Memories and the City (2003) 3,594 copies
The Museum of Innocence (2008) 2,241 copies
The Black Book (1990) 2,202 copies
The White Castle (1979) 1,787 copies
The New Life (1994) 1,107 copies
A Strangeness in My Mind (2014) 926 copies
Silent House (1983) 751 copies
The Red-Haired Woman (2016) 523 copies
Nights of Plague (2021) 343 copies
Mr. Cevdet and His Sons (1982) 197 copies
The Innocence of Objects (2012) 138 copies
My Father's Suitcase (2006) 101 copies
The Innocence of Memories (2016) 22 copies
Ben Bir Agacim (2013) 11 copies
To Look Out the Window (2016) 8 copies
Orange (2020) 8 copies
Hidden Face: Scenario (1991) 8 copies
Balkon (2018) 7 copies
雪 (上) (2012) 2 copies
Kara Kitap 25 Yaþinda (2016) 2 copies
雪 (下) (2012) 2 copies
Kar Üzerine Yazilar (2021) 2 copies
JETA E RE 2 copies
Ime mi je rdeca (2007) 1 copy
Rudowlosa, wydanie II (2018) 1 copy
Libri i zi 1 copy
Nieve 1 copy
Pamuk Orhan 1 copy
Ruttoyöt 1 copy

Associated Works

The Paris Review Interviews II (2014) — Introduction, some editions — 347 copies
Granta 77: What We Think of America (2002) — Contributor — 217 copies
Granta 85: Hidden Histories (2004) — Contributor — 170 copies
Granta 68: Love Stories (1999) — Contributor — 149 copies
Granta 61: The Sea (1998) — Contributor — 148 copies
Granta 149: Europe: Strangers in the Land (2019) — Contributor — 40 copies
Ara Güler's Istanbul (1800) — Preface — 28 copies
Pensar a Cultura (Em Portuguese do Brasil) (2013) — Contributor — 4 copies

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Osman first comes across a book called The new life when he sees a pretty girl carrying it around in the university refectory. He spots a copy on a bookstall, reads it himself, and finds his life transformed in some weird way by what he reads. Osman and the lovely (but regrettably unavailable) Janan set out on a quest for Janan’s lost lover that involves criss-crossing Turkey on an apparently endless series of bus journeys, a considerable number of which end in deadly bus-collisions.

Repeatedly, Pamuk seems to side-step any straightforward interpretation of the book, allowing the plot to shift directions unpredictably whenever we seem to be getting close to some kind of resolution. It’s a sweetly-ironic account of young love, a study of how conspiracies and counter-conspiracies work and of how ready young people are to allow themselves to be influenced by ideas that promise to bring an escape from the everyday, a look at how the power of an idea can become detached from its originator’s intentions when it is put into a book, and it's often also a gently satirical look back at life in provincial Turkey a few decades ago. And a nostalgic homage to obsolete Turkish brand names, overnight buses, rail travel, bad films and the low-grade children’s literature of the author’s youth. But it also brings in Dante, Rilke, and a whole bunch of other apparently incongruent threads, so you need to keep your wits about you.

Puzzling, but often quite captivating. If you are looking for a book about how many angels can dance on a candy-wrapper, this is the one.
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