Five years ago, Orhan Pamuk wrote a novel about a poet who is snared in a political intrigue from which there is no escape. Nine months ago, Turkey's most famous novelist was pulled into just such an ...

When Orhan Pamuk received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006, he was 54, the second youngest recipient in the history of the award. Since then he has written two novels that have been published in ...

The Turkish author Orhan Pamuk, whose trial on charges of "insulting Turkishness" was dropped earlier this year, has won the 2006 Nobel prize for literature. The Swedish Academy praised the author's ...

Renowned Turkish writer and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk has been awarded the Yasnaya Polyana literary prize for the Russian translation of his novel "A Strangeness in My Mind." On Feb. 24 Pamuk came to ...

Orhan Pamuk’s new novel, Nights of Plague, is set mainly on Mingheria, a “fairy-tale,” “otherworldly,” and fictional Ottoman island—a “pearl of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea,” or so say the painters ...

Orhan Pamuk, trans, from the Turkish by Nazim Dikbas. Harvard Univ., $22.95 (234p) ISBN 978-0-674-05076-1 Taking his title and inspiration from Schiller's "On Naive and Sentimental Poetry," Nobel ...

Isolation from the outside world has driven some of Orhan Pamuk’s most important works. In The White Castle (1985), an Ottoman pasha and his Venetian slave in the seventeenth century retreat to a ...

Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize in Literature today. Last winter, Pamuk faced as many as three years in prison for the crime of “insulting” the Turkish Republic. In a “Culturebox” ...

Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk on Russia's War of Aggression Turkey Is "Clearly on the Side of the West" In an interview, Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk says that autocrats like Vladimir Putin will ultimately ...

In 2012, Orhan Pamuk, Turkey’s only Nobel laureate in literature, opened his Museum of Innocence in a 19th century wooden house in Istanbul. A real museum of imaginary lives, it contains 1,000 objects ...