Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk
Ferit Orhan Pamukis a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, his work has sold over thirteen million books in sixty-three languages, making him the country's best-selling writer...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 June 1952
CityIstanbul, Turkey
color profound void
All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time.
hero world detectives
How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed.
dream mean people
Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're about to kill each other--or kill ourselves.
class istanbul culture
Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
sarcastic book cynical
Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both sarcastic, even cynical, but deeply compassionate. Just seeing the cover of one of Wildes books in a bookshop makes me smile.
falling-in-love fall unhappy
We fall in love more deeply when were unhappy.
life-is-short life-is moments
Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.
poetic-license giving doe
Hüzün does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed.
laughing together laughing-together
Happiness is laughing together...
snow joy essentials
The snow reminded me of the beauty and mystery of creation, of the essential joy that is life.
istanbul firsts celebrate
It was in Cihangir that i first learned Istanbul was not an anonymous multitude of walled-in lives - a jungle of apartments where no one knew who was dead or who was celebrating what - but an archipelago of neighbourhoods in which everyone knew each other.
who-i-am color people
Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves might examine footprints to catch a thief.
drinking trying body
As always after drinking too much, I felt like my own ghost trying to take it's first solo walk outside the body.
expectations together
The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life