Orhan Pamuk
1952– · Turkish (Istanbul) · 20th-21st Century
Known for: Nobel laureate who writes about Istanbul the way Istanbul writes about itself — layers of memory
Pamuk won the Nobel Prize (2006) for novels (My Name Is Red, Snow, The Museum of Innocence) exploring the intersection of East and West through Istanbul.
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