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Orhan Pamuk
Author, “A Strangeness in Mind”
Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist who in 2006 won the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is the author of novels including The White Castle, The Black Book, The New Life, My Name Is Red, Snow, The Museum of Innocence, and A Strangeness in My Mind.
rnHe is the Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he teaches writing and comparative literature. Pamuk holds honorary doctorates from the Free University of Berlin, Tilburg University, Boğaziçi University, and Georgetown, and his books have been translated into more than fifty languages.
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"Pay attention to people's lives," explains the acclaimed author. Then don't be afraid to rewrite and edit and re-edit and re-rewrite and so on.
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A gnawing habit of sense-criticism and anxiety over authenticity keep the Nobel Prize winner up at night.
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Even the best among us fail and fail a lot. So why not drop the empty notion of heroism and use an accurate method for judging humans?
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The Nobel laureate explains why talk of Turkey joining the EU quickly faded away.
While writers have a moral obligation to address all of humanity in their works, Orhan Pamuk is skeptical of the aesthetics of avoiding categorizations entirely.
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As the Nobel laureate and Istanbul native argues, the so-called clash between Eastern and Western cultures in the region is a malignant myth—in reality, civilizations can come together easily.
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Orhan Pamuk has a penchant for the great but forgotten museums that inspired the likes of Proust and Malraux—places where one goes to contemplate “life after death.”