Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk, Turkish novelist and winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature, poses during a press conference before the opening of the Museum of Innocence in Istanbul on April 27, 2012. The museum, named after a novel written by Orhan Pamuk, houses a collection of Istanbul's past cultural and daily life artifacts from the time period the novel was set in. The museum will be open to the public on April 28.
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Istanbul: Journey to Another World
For many readers, a first visit to Istanbul can seem an oddly familiar experience, reminding us at every turn of the writing of Orhan Pamuk; we recognise the great mosques and the old wooden buildings, the ships on the Bosphorus and the hectic modern str from Bookhugger.co.uk Read more »
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Diary: Istanbul | Elif Batuman | London Review Of Books | 29 May 2012
A visit to Orhan Pamuk's Museum of innocence, and an insight into his method of creating it. He bought the house before he started writing the novel. He acquired objects, and waited for them to find their way into the story Read full article Members can from The Browser Read more »
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The Arab Spring Created A Bunch Of Mini Irans
Six months ago, when Algerian writer Boualem Sansal was awarded the Frankfurt Book Fair's top honor, the Peace Prize, he was, like many previous winners — Susan Sontag, Orhan Pamuk and Vaclav Havel among them — an author and a cultural icon of great reno from The Business Insider Read more »
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Elif Batuman: Pamuk’s Museum
It wasn’t long before I heard that Orhan Pamuk was in town, building a museum. The museum was said to be full of stuff that had ‘belonged’ to the protagonists of his last novel, The Museum of Innocence. If you knocked on the door, he would let you in and from London Review of Books Read more »
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Simone Girner: The Captivating Style Of Istanbul
In his evocative memoir Istanbul , Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk writes powerfully about the place of his birth, beautifully capturing the city's modern-day complexities and historical riches: "In Istanbul, remains of a glorious past civilization are ev from The Huffington Post Read more »
