Orhan Pamuk Archive

  • A View of the Bosporus

    A View of the Bosporus

    Pico Iyer on Orhan Pamuk: Pamuk has two enduring loves: books and Istanbul. Often they converge as his journeys through his hometown come to resemble excursions through memory itself. Like Proust, Pamuk has spent decades of his life — 15,300 days, he calculates — in...

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  • Orhan Pamuk wins the Nobel Prize!

    Orhan Pamuk wins the Nobel Prize!

    I can’t think of anyone more deserving of this prize. As he wrote in the International Herald Tribune earlier this year: It is because all writers have a deep desire to be authentic that even after all these years I still love to be asked...

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