About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Orhan Pamuk, Aziz Nesin, Ya ar Kemal, Halide Edip Ad var, Fatma Aliye Topuz, Elif afak, H fz Topuz, Y lmaz Onay, O uz Atay, Buket Uzuner, Zulfu Livaneli, Feridun Zaimo lu, Kemal Tahir, Selcuk Altun, Attila lhan, Sait Faik Abas yan k, Hikmet Temel Akarsu, Mehmet Murat Somer, Asl Erdo an, Orhan Kemal, Ahmet Hamdi Tanp nar, Furuzan, Meltem Ar kan, Re at Nuri Guntekin, R fat Ilgaz, Sabahattin Ali, Nedim Gursel, Ca da Cetinkaya, Oya Baydar, Ahmet Altan, Sabit nce, Mustafa Balel, Necati Cumal, Yakup Kadri Karaosmano lu, Mario Levi, Murathan Mungan, Nazan Bekiro lu, Halit Ziya U akl gil, Omer Seyfettin, lhan Selcuk, Adalet A ao lu, Latife Tekin, M g rdic Margosyan, Tuna Kiremitci, Hakan Toker, Peride Celal, Huseyin Rahmi Gurp nar, Osman Necmi Gurmen, Ayfer Tunc, Murat Gulsoy, Alper Sezener, Emre Miyaso lu, Mehmet Culum, Guneli Gun. Excerpt: Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born 7 June 1952), generally known simply as Orhan Pamuk, is a Turkish novelist. He is also the Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he teaches comparative literature and writing. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, his work has sold over seven million books in more than fifty languages, making him the country's best-selling writer. Pamuk is the recipient of numerous literary awards, including the Nobel Prize in Literature 2006, the first Nobel Prize to be awarded to a Turkish citizen. Pamuk was born in Istanbul in 1952 and grew up in a wealthy yet declining bourgeois family; an experience he describes in passing in his novels The Black Book and Cevdet Bey and His Sons, as well as more thoroughly in his personal memoir Istanbul. He was educated at Robert College secondary school in Istanbul and went on to study architecture at the Istanbul Technical University since it was related to his real dream career, paintin...
