Orhan Pamuk

Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born June 7, 1952) is a famous Nobel Prize-winning Turkish author. 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 
 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]. A new translation by Maureen Freely was published in 2006
 The New Life, translated by Güneli Gün, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997 [original title: Yeni Hayat]
 My Name is Red, translated by Erdağ M. Göknar, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001 [original title: Benim Adım Kırmızı].
 Snow, translated by Maureen Freely, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004 [original title: Kar]
 Istanbul: Memories and the City, translated by Maureen Freely, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005 [original title: İstanbul: Hatıralar ve Şehir]

Bibliography in Turkish 
 Cevdet Bey ve Oğulları (Cevdet Bey and His Sons), novel, Istanbul: Karacan Yayınları, 1982
 Sessiz Ev (The Silent House) , novel, Istanbul: Can Yayınları, 1983
 Beyaz Kale (The White Castle), novel, Istanbul: Can Yayınları, 1985
 Kara Kitap (The Black Book), novel, Istanbul: Can Yayınları, 1990
 Gizli Yuz (Secret Face), screenplay, Istanbul: Can Yayınları, 1992 
 Yeni Hayat (The New Life), novel, Istanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 1995
 Benim Adım Kırmızı (My Name is Red), novel, Istanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 1998
 Öteki Renkler (The Other Colors), essays, Istanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 1999
 Kar (Snow), novel, Istanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 2002
 İstanbul: Hatıralar ve Şehir (Istanbul: Memories and the City), memoirs, Istanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 2003

Awards 
 1979 Milliyet Press Novel Contest Award (Turkey) for his novel Karanlık ve Işık (co-winner)
 1983 Orhan Kemal Novel Prize (Turkey) for his novel Cevdet Bey ve Oğulları
 1984 Madarali Novel Prize (Turkey) for his novel Sessiz Ev
 1990 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (United Kingdom) for his novel Beyaz Kale
 1991 Prix de la Découverte Européenne (France) for the French edition of Sessiz Ev : La Maison de Silence
 1995 Prix France Culture (France) for his novel Kara Kitap : Le Livre Noir
 2002 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger (France) for his novel My Name Is Red : Mon Nom est Rouge
 2002 Premio Grinzane Cavour (Italy) for his novel My Name Is Red
 2003 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (Ireland) for his novel My Name Is Red
 2005 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (Germany)
 2005 Prix Medicis Etranger (France) for his novel Snow : La Neige
 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature (Sweden)
 2006 Washington University's Distinguished Humanist Award (United States)

Honorary Doctorate 
 Free University of Berlin, Department of Philosophy and Humanities - May 4, 2007
 2007 Boğaziçi University, Department of Western Languages and Literatures May 14, 2007

References

Other websites 

 The comprehensive web site on Orhan Pamuk
 Faber reading guide for Snow 
 The Guardian on Orhan Pamuk
 The Times Literary Supplement Editorial on Orhan Pamuk
 International Herald Tribune Editorial on Orhan Pamuk
 Pamuk's letter on his trial published in the December 19th issue of the New Yorker 
 ABC documentary on Pamuk and The Armenian Genocide
 Orhan Pamuk 'Bookweb' on literary website The Ledge, with suggestions for further reading. 
 Orhan Pamuk as profiled on the Nobel Prize website
 "My Father's Suitcase" - Orhan Pamuk's Nobel Lecture, 2006 as translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely

1952 births
Living people
Writers from Istanbul