Orhan Pamuk

Author

Orhan Pamuk is a Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist currently serving as the Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. He was educated at Istanbul Technical University and spent a brief period as a visiting fellow at the University of Iowa before assuming the position of visiting professor at Columbia University in 2006. He has also been writer in residence at Bard College. Pamuk writes in Turkish but his books have been translated into over 50 languages, including the English translations The Museum of Innocence (2009), Other Colours: Essays and a Story (2005), Istanbul: Memories of a City (2005), Snow (2004), The Black Book (1994) and The White Castle (1991) which won the 1990 Independent Award for Foreign Fiction. He also wrote the screenplay for the film Gizli Yüz (Secret Face).

Pamuk has received numerous awards for his work, including the Distinguished Humanist Award from Washington University (2006), the Nobel Prize in Literature (2006), and the Prix Medicis Etranger (2005).