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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.
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culture · Turkish novelist, academic and Nobel laureate (born 1952) · writer · novelist · screenwriter · essayist · journalist · academic · also Orhan Pamuk, Pamuk, Ferit Orhan Pamuk
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I am just listening to an inner music, the mystery of which I don't completely know. And I don't want to know.
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“I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination – that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.”
“I am just listening to an inner music, the mystery of which I don't completely know. And I don't want to know.”
“Thirty thousand Kurds have been killed here, and a million Armenians. And almost nobody dares to mention that. So I do.”
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“(Museum of Dreams will) tell a different version of the love story set in Istanbul through objects and Grant Gee’s wonderful new film”
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Yahoo: ‘The Museum of Innocence’: Orhan Pamuk's TV adaptation delights Turkish audiences
A series based on the novel The Museum of Innocence was released on Netflix
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Worldcrunch: Orhan Pamuk On Pandemics, Press Freedom And An Eye On Erdogan’s Defeat
The Guardian: Orhan Pamuk: ‘I have some fame, so I can say things others cannot’
Hyperallergic: Orhan Pamuk’s Secret Paintings of Time
Awarded honorary doctorate from University of Lyon-II (2024).
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The Guardian: On my radar: Orhan Pamuk’s cultural highlights
The New Republic: Orhan Pamuk Turns an Outbreak Into a Revolution
Los Angeles Times: Orhan Pamuk’s ‘Nights of Plague’ entangles an epidemic with a (fictional) revolution
The Guardian: Nights of Plague by Orhan Pamuk review – a playful approach to big themes
The Guardian: Author Orhan Pamuk: ‘I used to have three bodyguards, now I have one’
The Guardian: ‘Images you can smell’ – novelist Orhan Pamuk on Dayanita Singh’s mesmerising photos of India’s disintegrating archives
SPIEGEL: Orhan Pamuk on Russia's War of Aggression: Turkey Is "Clearly on the Side of the West"
“Intervista di Monica Ricci Sargentini sull'invasione russa dell'Ucraina del 2022, Corriere.it, 16 maggio 2016”
The Guardian: Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk charged again with ‘insulting Turkishness’
Publishers Weekly: Books by Orhan Pamuk and Complete Book Reviews
Published “Automatic detection of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) using X-ray images and deep convolutional neural networks” in Pattern Analysis and Applications — cited 1,235 times.
Published “Automatic detection of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) using X-ray images and deep convolutional neural networks” in Pattern Analysis and Applications — cited 1,227 times.
The Quint rated the claim “Turkish author Orhan Pamuk has passed away at the age of 66.” FALSE.
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The 66-year-old Nobel laureate held an exhibition of his photographs of Istanbul taken from his own balcony, "Balkon: Photos by Orhan Pamuk"
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JSTOR Daily: Orhan Pamuk and the Good of World Literature
The Guardian: Orhan Pamuk's Snow: a book about 'other' people – and therefore us
The Guardian: Anger at a 'liberal elite' and an author in exile: Orhan Pamuk's Snow is eerily prescient
The Guardian: Reading group: Snow by Orhan Pamuk is March's book
The Guardian: Pressure from Turkey blamed as Sarajevo reverses decision to honour Orhan Pamuk
The Guardian: Orhan Pamuk and Nicole Krauss - books podcast
Hürriyet Daily News: INTERVIEW: Ekin Oklap on translating Orhan Pamuk into English
The Guardian: The Red-Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk review – ancient myths and authorial friskiness
The Guardian: The Red-Haired Woman review – Orhan Pamuk finds truth at the bottom of a well
Los Angeles Times: Op-Ed: Orhan Pamuk: Sometimes, to teach a novel feels like a betrayal of literature
Artnet: Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence Comes to London
“Intervista di Marco Ansaldo, Repubblica.it, 5 maggio 2016”
Awarded German-Turkish friendship Prize (2015).
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Awarded Erdal Öz Literature Award (2015).
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“Intervista di Erkut Tokman, Penclub.it, 19 giugno 2015”
Pamuk invited Grazia Toderi, whose work he admired, to design a work for the Museum of Innocence in Istanbul
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Newsweek: Orhan Pamuk on His Museum of Innocence in Istanbul
Hürriyet Daily News: Orhan Pamuk’s museum gets 11,000 visitors
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (2012).
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Awarded honorary doctor of Sofia University (2011).
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Pamuk was ordered to pay 6,000 liras in compensation for having insulted the plaintiffs' honor
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Awarded Norman Mailer Prize (2010).
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Awarded honorary doctor of Yale University (2010).
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Published “Socioeconomic Disparities in Health in the United States: What the Patterns Tell Us” in American Journal of Public Health — cited 1,197 times.
Published “Socioeconomic Disparities in Health in the United States: What the Patterns Tell Us” in American Journal of Public Health — cited 1,207 times.
Awarded honorary doctorate from University of Rouen (2009).
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Was Harvard's Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer, delivering a series of lectures titled "The Naive and Sentimental Novelist"
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Awarded Ovid Prize (2008).
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“PAMUK, Orhan. O livro negro. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2008, p. 211”
In an open online poll, Pamuk was voted as the fourth most intellectual person in the world on the list of Top 100 Public Intellectuals by Prospect (United Kingdom) and Foreign Policy (United States)
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Awarded Honorary doctor of the Free University of Berlin (2007).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense (2007).
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures.
Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (2006).
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The magazine Time listed Pamuk in the cover article "TIME 100: The People Who Shape Our World", in the category "Heroes & Pioneers", for speaking up
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“Freedom to Write", Prague Writer's Festival (May 8, 2006)”
“My Father's Suitcase", Nobel Prize for Literature lecture (December 7, 2006)”
Awarded Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association (2005).
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Awarded Prix Médicis étranger (2005).
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Awarded Ricarda-Huch-Preis (2005).
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A lawyer sued him over a statement acknowledging the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire
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After Pamuk made a statement about the Armenian genocide and mass killings of Kurds, a criminal case was opened against him based on a complaint filed by lawyer Kemal Kerinçsiz
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Pamuk received the €25,000 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade for his literary work, in which "Europe and Islamic Turkey find a place for one another
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Awarded Dublin Literary Award (2003).
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(English version, Istanbul—Memories and the City, 2005)
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Won the International Dublin Literary Award, one of the world's most lucrative literary prizes
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Awarded Grinzane Cavour Prize (2002).
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“Translated by Erdağ Göknar (New York: Vintage International, 2002)”
Pamuk published his book of essays Öteki Renkler (Other Colors)
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Published “The Effect of Age on the Association between Body-Mass Index and Mortality” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 1,142 times.
Published “The Effect of Age on the Association between Body-Mass Index and Mortality” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 1,145 times.
“Benim adım Kırmızı» — роман 1998 года, русский перевод В. Феоновой 2001 года.”
Was among a group of authors tried for writing essays that criticized Turkey's treatment of the Kurds
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“O silêncio da neve, pensou o homem que estava sentado logo atrás do motorista de ônibus. Se aquilo fosse o começo de um poema, poderia chamar o que sentia em seu íntimo de o silêncio da neve.”
“Bu çirkin ve iğrenç dünyada ancak aptallar mutlu olabilir.”
“Sono due città simili, Napoli come Istanbul si è lasciata il suo antico splendore alle spalle... ma mentre a Napoli c'è ancora traccia del passato, nei musei, nei palazzi, nelle strade, a Istanbul tutto è andato bruciato, distrutto... Eravamo troppo occupati a sopravvivere.”
“Era um poeta e, como ele próprio escrevera – num de seus primeiros poemas, ainda desconhecido dos turcos -, neva apenas uma vez em nossos sonhos.”
“Tutkularım var benim. Başkalarına benzemiyorum. Cesaretim var!”
“[Sulla Sicilia] Scusate, sarei dovuto venire in questa isola splendida cinquanta anni fa, devo recuperare.”
“Mas me parece que você não poderia ser de fato ateu, porque é uma pessoa boa.”
“Ben bunları doğru bulmuyorum. Siz Türkiye'yi köylü cenneti yapmak istiyorsunuz!”
“Se Deus não existe, isso significa que o céu também não existe. E isso significa que os pobres do mundo, esses milhões que vivem na pobreza e na opressão, nunca irão para o céu. E se é assim, então como você explica todo o sofrimento dos pobres? Para que estamos aqui, e por que temos de suportar tanto sofrimento, se é tudo em vão?”
“Neden böyle sessiz olduk? Neden herkes hep böyle kendi dünyasına çekiliyor?”
“Ele sentiu o mesmo tipo de culpa e vergonha que sentia quando jovem, ao sair de reuniões políticas. Aquelas reuniões políticas o perturbavam não apenas porque ele era um rapaz de alta classe média, mas também porque as discussões eram cheias de atitudes infantis e exageros.”
“Ben zenginlerden hoşlanmıyor değilim! Ben zenginlerin kaba, kültürsüz, cahil olmalarına, memleketi, inkılapları, böyle şeyleri düşünmemelerine karşıyım!”
“Pięciokrotna modlitwa w ciągu dnia, sahur, iftar… rozkłady jazdy i czasomierze są tutaj pośrednikami w drodze do Allaha, a nie – jak na Zachodzie – narzędziami pomagającymi nadążyć za światem.”
“Niewielu śmiertelników myśli razem z naturą. Jeśli już to robią, zazwyczaj nie mają w głowach idei, które odkryli, patrząc wokół, ale kilka należących do kogoś innego żałosnych refleksji, uznawanych przez nich za własne.”
“Nie ma nic cenniejszego nad spokój ofiarowany przez zapomnienie.”
“Dlaczego ludzie myślą słowami, ale cierpią z powodu obrazów?”
“Człowiek najczęściej postępuje odwrotnie, niż sądzi i niż to sobie zaplanował. Gdy dokądś jedzie, wraca do siebie. Kiedy myśli, że czyta – w istocie sam coś pisze. Chce pomóc, a rani… Tak naprawdę większość ludzi nie chce ani nowego życia, ani innego świata.”
“(…) czasem, kiedy zostajemy oderwani od obrządków jakiegoś pospolitego nawyku, którego istnienia nawet nie byliśmy świadomi, ogarnia nas smutek i poczucie, że życie nie będzie już takiej jak wcześniej.”
“Czas, stwierdziłem, jest kolizją. Jesteśmy tu, bo zdarzył nam się wypadek. Ze światem jest tak samo.”
“Prawdziwym wyzwaniem jest zrozumienie życia duchowego biednych, upokorzonych i pokrzywdzonych ludzi, których Zachód wykluczył ze swojej wspólnoty.”
“Pierwszą nauką, jaką dała mi szkoła, było to, że niektórzy są głupi. Drugą – że inni mogą być znacznie głupsi.”
“Nie obchodzi mnie, czy Turcja wejdzie, czy nie wejdzie do Unii, bardziej interesuje mnie to, czy stanie się w końcu prawdziwą demokracją.”
Wrote the screenplay for the movie Gizli Yüz (Secret Face), based on Kara Kitap and directed by a prominent Turkish director, Ömer Kavur
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“Ahlaksız bir insan olmaktan yalnızca kendi irademi ve aklımı kullanarak kurtulacağımı anladım.”
“(…) świat jest taki jak słowo pisane – ograniczony, ułomny i niedoskonały.”
“Upadek wielkich cywilizacji i utrata ludzkiej pamięci sprawiają, że to właśnie dzieci pierwsze tracą moralność, bo szybko i bezboleśnie zapominają o przeszłości i z łatwością zaczynają marzyć o tym, co nowe.”
“When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.”
“Adesso che sono finalmente venuto in Sicilia, ho desiderio di conoscerla bene, non solo attraverso gli autori che ho letto, Verga, Sciascia, Tomasi di Lampedusa e soprattutto Pirandello. Voglio conoscerne le differenze e sono molto curioso di scoprire Palermo.”
“Fino ai 45 anni ero uno scrittore turco che viveva a Istanbul e scriveva dell'umanità. Adesso sono l'icona di Istanbul. Questa consapevolezza non mi fa felice, ma è vero, ora io arrivo all'umanità tramite Istanbul.”
“A veces pienso que si el tabaco gusta tanto no es por la fuerza de la nicotina, sino porque en este mundo vacío y sin sentido te da con facilidad la impresión de estar haciendo algo que tiene un significado.”
“Il muro è qualcosa davanti al quale non bisogna fermarsi. Il modo migliore per evitare un muro è comportarsi come se questo non esistesse, avendo ben presente che esiste, ma non facendosi condizionare dalla sua presenza.”
“Lo que primero me evoca la escritura es [...] al hombre que, encerrado en su habitación, se repliega sobre sí mismo, a solas con las palabras.”
“Indagare sulla probabilità della propria morte era una faccenda molto privata.”
Won International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival Award for Best Original Screenplay (1991).
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And his wife had a daughter, Rüya, whose name means "dream" in Turkish, and to whom his novel My Name is Red is dedicated
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Awarded Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (1990).
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Won the 1990 Independent Award for Foreign Fiction and extended his reputation abroad
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And won the Orhan Kemal Novel Prize in 1983
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On 1 March 1982, Pamuk married historian Aylin Türegün.
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Studied at Istanbul University Faculty of Communications (1976).
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Born 1952-06-07.
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And grew up in a wealthy but declining upper-class family, an experience he describes in passing in his novels The Black Book and Cevdet Bey and His Sons, as well as more thoroughly in his personal memoir Istanbul: Memor
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Was a major thing that was hidden from the Turkish nation; it was a taboo
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