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Pamuk

British  
/ ˈpæmək /

noun

  1. Orhan. born 1952, Turkish novelist and writer; author of The Black Book (1990), My Name is Red (1998), Snow (2002) and Istanbul: Memories of a City (2003). Nobel prize for literature 2006

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Nobel literature prize-winner Pamuk, who opened the museum in 2012, four years after the novel was published, has admitted to being a similarly compulsive collector.

From Barron's Feb. 13, 2026

It’s not the first time Pamuk has stirred up nationalist ire, as he’s been charged with “insulting Turkishness” in the past.

From Washington Post Oct. 12, 2022

By Orhan Pamuk Translated by Ekin Oklap Knopf: 704 pages, $34 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 4, 2022

Pamuk told Reuters he had been unaware that TRT delayed covering his award in 2006, a time when the media was “relatively free” compared to now.

From Reuters Aug. 31, 2022

Lawrence, Orhan Pamuk, and Agatha Christie were all rejected and sent back to a Jordanian distributor.

From New York Times Sep. 20, 2019

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