Alphabet Authors ~ P is for Pamuk

I found this idea on Simon's blog @ Stuck in a Book. He picks an author for each letter of the alphabet, sharing which of their books he's read, which I ones he owns, how he came across them etc.

I might not do it exactly as he does but I will try to get to all the letters of the alphabet over time.

Orhan Pamuk belongs to my favourite authors. And here are all the books I read by him. Well, those are also all the books that have been translated into either English or German. I don't think I will ever learn Turkish well enough in order to be able to read a book in that language.

- "My Father's Suitcase" (TR: Babamın Bavulu) - 2007

- "The Black Book" (TR: Kara Kitap) - 1990
- "Cevdet Bey and His Sons" (TR: Cevdet Bey ve Oğulları) - 1982

- "The Innocence of Objects" (TR: Şeylerin Masumiyeti) - 2012
- "Istanbul" (TK: İstanbul - Hatıralar ve Şehir) - 2003
- "The Museum of Innocence" (TR: Masumiyet Müzesi) - 2008
- "My Name is Red - 1998 * 

- "The Naïve and the Sentimental Novelist" (TR: Saf ve Düşünceli Romancı) - 2011
- "The New Life" (TR: Yeni Hyat) - 1994

- "Nights of Plague" (TR: Veba Geceleri) - 2021
- "The Red-Haired Woman" (TR: Kırmızı Saçlı Kadın) - 2016
- "Silent House" (TR: Sessiz Ev) - 1983
- "Snow" (TR: Kar) - 2002   
- "A Strangeness in my Mind" (TR: Kafamda Bir Tuhaflık) - 2014

- "To Look Out the Window/Pieces from the View: Life, Streets, Literature" (TR: Manzaradan Parçalar: Hayat, Sokaklar, Edebiyat/Der Blick aus meinem Fenster. Betrachtungen) - 2008
- "The White Castle" (TR: Beyaz Kale) - 1985

Facts about Orhan Pamuk:
Born    7 June 1952 Istanbul, Turkey
He has received several prizes, i.a. the French Légion d'honneur Officier, the International Dublin Award, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (Friedenspreis), and many more.

He was the first Turkish author to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
He was also awarded several doctorates, honoris causa, i.a. in Berlin, Paris and St. Petersburg as well as in Yale and other. 
After issuing a statement about the Armenian genocide and mass killings of Kurds, he was charged for publicly insulting the Republic. After eight world-renowned authors supported him, the charges were dropped.

He has one daughter (Rüya which means dream) with his first wife.

Quotes:

"My job is not to explain Turks to Europeans and Europeans to Turks, but to write good books."

"You know, there are people who love their fatherland by torturing. I love my country by criticizing my state."

Orhan Pamuk "who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures" received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006.

Orhan Pamuk received the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (Friedenspreis) in 2005.

I contribute to this page: Read the Nobels and you can find all my blogs about Nobel Prize winning authors and their books here.

You will find more information on his homepage.

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This is part of an ongoing series where I will write about a different author for each letter of the alphabet. You can see them all here.