Orhan Pamuk

Biography

Ferit Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist and academic born on June 7, 1952, in Istanbul. As one of Turkey's most prominent novelists, he has sold over 13 million books in 63 languages, earning him the country's best-selling writer title. A recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature, Pamuk is a professor at Columbia University and a laureate of numerous other literary awards.