Orhan Pamuk

Orhan Pamuk was born on 7 June 1952 in Istanbul, into a well-off family in which his father, uncle and grandfather were engineers, according to the Nobel biographical note. After Robert College, he studied architecture for three years at Istanbul Technical University, then took a degree in journalism at the University of Istanbul. His first novel appeared in 1982. A visiting researcher at Columbia University from 1985 to 1988, he was prosecuted, according to the same note, for remarks about the deaths of Kurds and Armenians, before the charges were dropped. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006.

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• NovelThe White CastleBeyaz KaleOrhan Pamuk · 1985Literature