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Orhan Pamuk
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Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul on June 7, 1952.
Pamuk's works
have been published worldwide in over 40 languages. His first novel, Cevdet Bey and His Sons, was published in 1982 and was awarded the Orhan Kemal and Milliyet literary prizes. The following year Pamuk published his novel The Silent House, which won the 1991 Prix de la découverte européene. His novel The Black Book was published in Turkey in 1990, and won the Prix France Culture. In 1991, Pamuk wrote the script for the film Hidden Face, based on a one-page story in The Black Book.
His novel My Name Is Red, about Ottoman and Persian artists and their ways of seeing and portraying the non-Western world, was published in 1998 and won the French Prix Du Meilleur Livre Etranger, the Italian Grinzane Cavour (2002) and the International IMPAC Dublin literary award (2003). The novel Snow, which Paumuk describes as "his first and last political novel," was published in 2002. Pamuk's most recent book, Istanbul, combines Pamuk's early memoirs up to the age of 22, and an essay about the city of Istanbul, illustrated with photographs from his own album, and pictures by western painters and Turkish photographers.
In 2005, Pamuk was charged under Article 301/1 of the
Turkish Penal
Code, which states, “A person who explicitly insults being a Turk, the
Republic or Turkish Grand National Assembly, shall be imposed to a
penalty of imprisonment for a term of six months to three years.” PEN
members around the world called on the Turkish government to condemn
these charges. In January 2006, the Turkish government dropped the charges. |
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WORLD VOICES EVENTS
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 Tuesday, April 25 at 7:00
The Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture: Orhan Pamuk
Saturday, April 29 at 5:00
The Global City |
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Pamuk Online
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www.orhanpamuk.net
Read Pamuk's lecture at Cooper Union in the New York Review of Books. >>More
Jörg Lau talks to Orhan Pamuk about freedom in Turkey, the trauma of its people and the dwindling enthusiasm for the EU. >>More
Read the Guardian's interview with Pamuk: "I just want to continue the life I had before." >>More
Orhan Pamuk in The New Yorker the week before his trial. >>More
Read an excerpt from Istanbul. >>More
The Paris Review interviews Pamuk. >>More
Letter to The New York Review of Books from English PEN protesting the charges against Orhan Pamuk. >>More
New Perspectives Quarterly interviews Pamuk. >>More
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