Orhan Pamuk

Professor

Email: op2114@columbia.edu

Turkish novels; Literature; Writing

Orhan Pamuk is one of most prominent novelists at work today. He writes in Turkish. Titles (in English) include The White Castle, The Black Book, My Name is Red, Snow, Istanbul: Memories of a City, Other Colors: Essays and a Story, The Museum of Innocence, The Naive and Sentimental Novelist, A Strangeness in My Mind and Red Haired Women. His work has been translated into more than 60 languages and he has received numerous prestigious international prizes, including Dublin Impac Award, the Prix Medicis, Peace Prize of German Book Trade and honorary membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2006, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Museum he built in Istanbul opened in 2012 and received European Museum of the Year Award in 2014