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 Guneli Gun, 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 Guneli Gun, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997 [original title: Yeni Hayat]
My Name is Red, translated by Erdag M. Goknar, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001 [original title: Benim Adim Kirmizi].
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: Istanbul: Hatiralar ve Sehir]
Bibliography in Turkish
Cevdet Bey ve Ogullari (Cevdet Bey and His Sons), novel, Istanbul: Karacan Yayinlari, 1982
Sessiz Ev (The Silent House) , novel, Istanbul: Can Yayinlari, 1983
Beyaz Kale (The White Castle), novel, Istanbul: Can Yayinlari, 1985
Kara Kitap (The Black Book), novel, Istanbul: Can Yayinlari, 1990
Gizli Yuz (Secret Face), screenplay, Istanbul: Can Yayinlari, 1992
Yeni Hayat (The New Life), novel, Istanbul: Iletisim Yayinlari, 1995
Benim Adim Kirmizi (My Name is Red), novel, Istanbul: Iletisim Yayinlari, 1998
Oteki Renkler (The Other Colors), essays, Istanbul: Iletisim Yayinlari, 1999
Kar (Snow), novel, Istanbul: Iletisim Yayinlari, 2002
Istanbul: Hatiralar ve Sehir (Istanbul: Memories and the City), memoirs, Istanbul: Yapi Kredi Yayinlari, 2003
Awards
1979 Milliyet Press Novel Contest Award (Turkey) for his novel Karanlik ve Isik (co-winner)
1983 Orhan Kemal Novel Prize (Turkey) for his novel Cevdet Bey ve Ogullari
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 Decouverte Europeenne (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 Bogazici 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