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 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101956/
- _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

## 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

## Infobox (writer)

- **name**: Ferit Orhan Pamuk
- **image**: Orhan Pamuk3.jpg
- **imagesize**: 200px
- **birth place**: Istanbul, Turkey
- **occupation**: Novelist
- **nationality**: Turkish people, Turkish
- **period**: 1974-present
- **movement**: Postmodern literature, post-modern literature
- **notableworks**: The White Castle
 The Black Book (Orhan Pamuk novel), The Black Book
 The New Life
 My Name is Red
 Snow (novel), Snow
 Istanbul: Memories and the City