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Orhan Pamuk


Born
in Istanbul, Turkey
June 07, 1952

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Genre
Fiction

Influences
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Mann, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Ya ...more


Ferit Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, he has sold over 13 million books in 63 languages, making him the country's best-selling writer.
Pamuk's novels include Silent House, The White Castle, The Black Book, The New Life, My Name Is Red and Snow. He is the Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he teaches writing and comparative literature. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018.
Of partial Circassian descent and born in Istanbul, Pamuk is the first Turkish Nobel laureate. He is also the recipient of numerous other literary awards. My Name Is Red won the 2002 Prix ...more

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Average rating: 3.78 · 270,507 ratings · 26,345 reviews · 112 distinct works • Similar authors
My Name Is Red
3.87 avg rating — 58,763 ratings — published 1998 — 254 editions
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Snow
3.62 avg rating — 47,902 ratings — published 2002 — 194 editions
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The Museum of Innocence
3.78 avg rating — 35,064 ratings — published 2008 — 73 editions
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Istanbul: Memories and the ...
3.82 avg rating — 21,100 ratings — published 2003 — 202 editions
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Kırmızı Saçlı Kadın
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3.74 avg rating — 20,071 ratings — published 2016 — 124 editions
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A Strangeness in My Mind
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4.15 avg rating — 15,649 ratings — published 2014 — 115 editions
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The White Castle
3.48 avg rating — 15,970 ratings — published 1985 — 14 editions
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The Black Book
3.92 avg rating — 12,676 ratings — published 1990 — 38 editions
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Sessiz Ev
3.74 avg rating — 9,328 ratings — published 1983 — 117 editions
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The New Life
3.56 avg rating — 9,242 ratings — published 1994 — 112 editions
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“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life
tags: books, orhan-pamuk, reading, the-new-life
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“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
― Orhan Pamuk, Snow
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“I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.”
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