Orhan Pamuk
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Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born 7 June 1952) is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, researcher, and winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Pamuk, one of Turkey's most popular writers, has sold over thirteen million books in sixty-three languages, including Silent House, The White Castle, The Black Book, The New Life, My Name Is Red, Snow, The Museum of Innocence, A Strangeness in My Mind, and The Red-Haired Woman.
He teaches writing and comparative literature at Columbia University's Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities.
Pamuk was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018. He was born in Istanbul and of partial Circassian descent.
He has also been the recipient of a number of other literary awards.
My Name Is Red was the winner of the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, 2002, Premio Grinzane Cavour, and the 2003 International Dublin Literary Award. The European Writers' Parliament emerged as a result of Pamuk and José Saramago's joint plan.
Kemal Kerinçsiz, the ultra-nationalist lawyer, sacked Pamuk in 2005 for a remark on the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire.
According to Pamukuk himself, his intention was to highlight issues relating to freedom of expression in the world of his birth.
The court initially refused to hear the case, but Pamuk was sentenced to $6,000 liras in total compensation for insulting the plaintiffs' name.
Early life
Pamuk was born in Istanbul, 1952, and he grew up in a wealthy yet declining upper-class family; an experience he retraces in his book The Black Book and Cevdet Bey and His Sons, as well as more extensively in his personal memoir Istanbul: Memories and the City. Circassian grandmother Pamuk was Pamuk's paternal grandmother. He was educated at Robert College secondary school in Istanbul and went on to study architecture at the Istanbul Technical University, since it was related to his real desire, painting. He left the architecture school after three years to become a full-time writer, and graduated from the University of Istanbul's Institute of Journalism in 1976. Pamuk lived with his mother, wrote his first book, and searching for a publisher. He describes himself as a Cultural Muslim who identifies the historical and cultural affiliation with the faith while not believing in a personal relationship to God.
Personal life
Evket Pamuk, Pamuk's elder brother, who occasionally appears as a fictional character in Orhan Pamuk's books, is a economist of economics who has been praised internationally for his contributions to the Ottoman Empire's economic history. He studied at Boaziçi University in Istanbul. Hümeyra Pamuk, a younger half of Pamuk, also works as a writer.
Pamuk married historian Aylin Türegün on March 1, 1982. Pamuk assumed the position of visiting scholar at Columbia University from 1985 to 1988, when his wife was a graduate student at the university's Butler Library, using the time to conduct study and write his book The Black Book. A visiting fellowship at the University of Iowa was also included during this period. Pamuk returned to Istanbul, a city to which he is strongly attached. Rüya, a boy born in 1991, had a daughter named Rüya (born 1991), whose name means "dream" in Turkish. They were divorced in 2001.
Pamuk returned to the United States in 2006 to serve as a visiting professor at Columbia University, where he was a Fellow of Columbia's Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures Department and its School of the Arts. Pamuk joined Andreas Huyssen and David Damrosch in Columbia in the 2007-2008 academic year to jointly teach comparative literature classes. Pamuk was also a writer-in-residence at Bard College. Pamuk was the Harvard Eliot Norton Lecturer in fall 2009, leading a series of lectures titled "The Naive and Sentimental Novelist."
Orhan revealed publicly that he knew Kiran Desai, the Booker prize winner of Indian origins. Karolin Fişekçi, a Turkish-Armenian artist, told Hürriyet Daily News in January 2011 that Pamuk had a two-and-a-half-year friendship with her during the same period (2010-12), which Pamuk specifically denied.
Since 2011, he has been in a friendship with Asl Akyavaş.
Awards and honours
- 1979 Milliyet Press Novel Contest Award (Turkey) for his novel Karanlık ve Işık (co-winner)
- 1983 Orhan Kemal Novel Prize (Turkey) for his novel Cevdet Bey ve Oğulları
- 1984 Madarali Novel Prize (Turkey) for his novel Sessiz Ev
- 1990 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (United Kingdom) for his novel Beyaz Kale
- 1991 Prix de la Découverte Européenne (France) for the French edition of Sessiz Ev : La Maison de Silence
- 1991 Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival (Turkey) Best Original Screenplay Gizli Yüz
- 1995 Prix France Culture (France) for his novel Kara Kitap: Le Livre Noir
- 2002 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger (France) for his novel My Name Is Red: Mon Nom est Rouge
- 2002 Premio Grinzane Cavour (Italy) for his novel My Name Is Red
- 2003 International Dublin Literary Award (Ireland) for his novel My Name Is Red (awarded jointly with translator Erdağ M. Göknar)
- 2005 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (Germany)
- 2005 Prix Médicis étranger (France) for his novel Snow: La Neige
- 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature (Sweden)
- 2006 Washington University's Distinguished Humanist Award (United States)
- 2006 Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France)
- 2008 Ovidius Prize (Romania)
- 2010 Norman Mailer Prize, Lifetime Achievement (USA)
- 2012 Sonning Prize (Denmark)
- 2012 Légion d'honneur Officier (France)
- 2014 The Mary Lynn Kotz Award (USA) for his book "The Innocence of Objects"
- 2014 Tabernakul Prize (Macedonia)
- 2014 European Museum of the Year Award (Estonia)
- 2014 Helena Vaz da Silva European Award for Public Awareness on Cultural Heritage (Portugal)
- 2015 Erdal Öz Prize (Turkey), for his novel A Strangeness in My Mind
- 2015 Aydın Doğan Foundation Award (Turkey), for his novel A Strangeness in My Mind
- 2016 The Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award ("Foreign Literature" category, Russia) for his novel A Strangeness in My Mind
- 2016 Milovan Vidaković Prize in Novi Sad (Serbia)
- 2017 Budapest Grand Prize (Hungary)
- 2017 Literary Flame Prize (Montenegro)
- 2019 Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
