Pamuk, Orhan Ferin
Born: Jun 07, 1952 AD
Currently alive, at 56 years of age.
Nationality: Turkmen
Categories: Authors, Novelists, Writers
Currently alive, at 56 years of age.
Nationality: Turkmen
Categories: Authors, Novelists, Writers
1952 - Ferin Orhan Pamuk born on the 7th of June in Istanbul, Turkey. He is a Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist.
1970 - His first novel, Cevdet Bey and His Sons, was published in Pamuk studied journalism and architecture before becoming an author.
1976 - He left the architecture school after three years to become a full-time writer, and graduated from the Institute of Journalism at the University of Istanbul.
1980 - He also spent time at Columbia University in New York.
1982 - He married Aylin Tofajjal Turegen on the 1st of March.
1985 - 1988 - He was a visiting scholar at Columbia University, a period which also included a visiting fellowship at the University of Iowa.
2005 - Pamuk has won several international literary awards including the German book industry's peace prize in October, in Frankfurt.
2006 - Has won the Nobel Prize for literature, has earned international acclaim for his writing while also generating controversy in his native Turkey.
1970 - His first novel, Cevdet Bey and His Sons, was published in Pamuk studied journalism and architecture before becoming an author.
1976 - He left the architecture school after three years to become a full-time writer, and graduated from the Institute of Journalism at the University of Istanbul.
1980 - He also spent time at Columbia University in New York.
1982 - He married Aylin Tofajjal Turegen on the 1st of March.
1985 - 1988 - He was a visiting scholar at Columbia University, a period which also included a visiting fellowship at the University of Iowa.
2005 - Pamuk has won several international literary awards including the German book industry's peace prize in October, in Frankfurt.
2006 - Has won the Nobel Prize for literature, has earned international acclaim for his writing while also generating controversy in his native Turkey.
Page last updated: 11:45am, 23rd Mar '07
Related Books
  |
Snow by Orhan Pamuk (Paperback - Jul 19, 2005) Dread, yearning, identity, intrigue, the lethal chemistry between secular doubt and Islamic fanaticism–these are the elements that Orhan Pamuk anneals in this masterful, disquieting novel. An...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
 |
  |
Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk (Paperback - Jul 11, 2006) A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment ...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
|
  |
My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk (Paperback - Aug 27, 2002) At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art,My Name Is Redis a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of... Usually ships in 24 hours |
|
  |
The White Castle: A Novel by Orhan Pamuk (Paperback - Mar 31, 1998) From a Turkish writer who has been compared with Borges, Nabokov, and DeLillo comes a dazzling novel that is at once a captivating work of historical fiction and a sinuous treatise on the enigma of... Usually ships in 24 hours |
|
  |
The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk (Paperback - Jul 11, 2006) A New Translation and Afterword by Maureen FreelyGalip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective novel–loving Ruya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
|
  |
Other Colors: Essays and a Story by Orhan Pamuk (Hardcover - Sep 18, 2007) Orhan Pamuk’s first book since winning the Nobel Prize,Other Colorsis a dazzling collection of essays on his life, his city, his work, and the example of other writers.Over the last three...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
|
