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Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk on the perils of authoritarianism, writing his pandemic novel through COVID-19 and the book’s unexpected India connection

October 16, 2022 2:55 pm

Part historical, part murder mystery, 'Nights of Plague' tells the story of the slow disintegration of an empire and the origin story of a nation state, set against an outbreak of bubonic plague

2006 Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk probed for insulting leader

November 15, 2021 10:10 pm

Turkish authorities launched an investigation into Pamuk earlier this year after a lawyer based in Izmir, western Turkey, claimed that the author insulted Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in his latest novel

2021 book list: Orhan Pamuk, Salman Rushdie, Jhumpa Lahiri coming up with their works

January 21, 2021 4:51 pm

Hachette will publish international authors like Stephen King ("Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption"); Martin Lindstrom ("The Ministry of Common Sense"); Damon Centola ("Change: How to Make Big Things Happen") and Scott Haas ("Ukeireru: Happiness and Acceptance through Japanese Wisdom").

Literature is about preserving your childishness all your life: Orhan Pamuk

May 10, 2020 4:43 pm

At the Nobel Banquet speech, The Snow author contemplated on oft-asked questions like why does he write.

There's little respect for free speech in Turkey: Orhan Pamuk

September 28, 2017 8:15 pm

"I am essentially not a political man, I would be happy to avoid politics. On the other hand, the political situation in Turkey is terrible and one feels a moral responsibility," he said.

Stacking the Odds: When was the last time the bookies got the Nobel right?

October 26, 2014 1:00 am

The last time the bookies got the Nobel right was in 2006 when Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk won.

Following the Paper Trail

April 13, 2014 12:34 am

In her latest work, File Room, Dayanita Singh frees her prints from the exhibition walls, and presses them between the folds of a book.

562 authors from around the world sign petition to end mass surveillance

December 10, 2013 4:07 pm

'Writers against Mass Surveillance' invite every person to oppose the digital menace.

A Moral Tale

October 13, 2012 3:32 am

Political and social tensions of Turkey come to light through the story of a family and a dwarf in Orhan Pamuk’s early book Silent House

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