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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

Combine Editions

Average rating: 3.78 · 288,940 ratings · 28,454 reviews · 116 distinct works • Similar authors
My Name Is Red
3.87 avg rating — 61,753 ratings — published 1998 — 262 editions
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Snow
3.62 avg rating — 49,779 ratings — published 2002 — 201 editions
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The Museum of Innocence
3.79 avg rating — 39,160 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions
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Istanbul: Memories and the ...
3.82 avg rating — 22,405 ratings — published 2003 — 188 editions
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Kırmızı Saçlı Kadın
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3.74 avg rating — 21,930 ratings — published 2016 — 5 editions
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A Strangeness in My Mind
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4.16 avg rating — 16,720 ratings — published 2014
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The White Castle
3.48 avg rating — 17,015 ratings — published 1985 — 162 editions
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The Black Book
3.92 avg rating — 13,390 ratings — published 1990 — 9 editions
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Sessiz Ev
3.74 avg rating — 9,977 ratings — published 1983 — 5 editions
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The New Life
3.56 avg rating — 9,701 ratings — published 1994 — 116 editions
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Quotes by Orhan Pamuk  (?)
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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
tags: happiness, love
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“I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red
tags: philosophy
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Polls

What book would you like to read for our August 2023 Group Read? The theme is Art.

The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Fantasy, Classic, Romance
 
  24 votes 29.3%

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
Historical Fiction, Italy, Renaissance
 
  19 votes 23.2%

Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
Contemporary Fiction, Feminism
 
  14 votes 17.1%

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Young Adult, Fiction
 
  8 votes 9.8%

 
  5 votes 6.1%

The Secret Life of Sunflowers by Marta Molnar
Historical Fiction, Van Gogh's SIL
 
  3 votes 3.7%

My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
Fiction, Classic, Judaism
 
  3 votes 3.7%

The Artist and the Assasin by Mark Frutkin
Historical Fiction, Caravaggio
 
  2 votes 2.4%

The Color Storm by Damian Dibben
Historical Fiction, Italy, Renaissance
 
  2 votes 2.4%

My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Historical Fiction, Mystery, Turkish Literature
 
  2 votes 2.4%

82 total votes
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