Orhan Pamuk, trans, from the Turkish by Nazim Dikbas. Harvard Univ., $22.95 (234p) ISBN 978-0-674-05076-1 Taking his title and inspiration from Schiller's "On Naive and Sentimental Poetry," Nobel ...

Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk's 1983 novel Silent House is being released in English for the first time this week. All Things Considered host Robert Siegel talks with the Nobel Laureate about what took ...

Turkey’s most famous author talks about highs and lows, still having a bodyguard and finding inspiration for his new novel on the streets of Istanbul From my hotel room in the centre of Istanbul, ...

In "The Museum of Innocence," a man obsessed with his love for a woman whom he will not marry collects objects to remind him of their relationship and his infatuation. Editor's Note: Jeffrey Brown ...

Turkey’s Nobel-winning author Orhan Pamuk met a packed Istanbul crowd on Tuesday as his widely acclaimed book, My Name is Red, turned 21. Pamuk was speaking at a panel discussion on the ...

NEW YORK – Novelist Orhan Pamuk, an international symbol of literary and social conscience, whose poetic, melancholy journeys into the soul of his native Turkey have brought him the many blessings and ...

Elizabeth Farnsworth talks with Turkish author Orhan Pamuk about his most recent novel to be published in English, "My Name is Red," as well as the challenges in bridging the cultures of East and West ...

Isolation from the outside world has driven some of Orhan Pamuk’s most important works. In The White Castle (1985), an Ottoman pasha and his Venetian slave in the seventeenth century retreat to a ...

When Orhan Pamuk received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006, he was 54, the second youngest recipient in the history of the award. Since then he has written two novels that have been published in ...