Orhan Pamuk
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Turkish novelist whose works explore East/West tensions and memory; Nobel Prize in Literature (2006).
Awards & Honors
- honorary doctorate from University of Lyon-II (2024)
- Erdal Öz Literature Award (2015)
- German-Turkish friendship Prize (2015)
- Officer of the Legion of Honour (2012)
- honorary doctor of Sofia University (2011)
- Norman Mailer Prize (2010)
- honorary doctor of Yale University (2010)
- honorary doctorate from University of Rouen (2009)
- Ovid Prize (2008)
- Honorary doctor of the Free University of Berlin (2007)
- honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense (2007)
- Nobel Prize in Literature (2006)
- Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association (2005)
- Prix Médicis étranger (2005)
- Ricarda-Huch-Preis (2005)
- Dublin Literary Award (2003)
- Grinzane Cavour Prize (2002)
- International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival Award for Best Original Screenplay (1991)
- Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (1990)
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
- honorary doctorate from the American University of Beirut
- honorary doctorate of the University of Tirana
- honorary doctor of Saint Petersburg State University
Notable Works
Cevdet Bey and His Sons [Novel] (1982)
The White Castle [Novel] (1985)
The Black Book [Novel] (1990)
The New Life [Novel] (1994)
My Name Is Red [Novel] (1998)
Snow [Novel] (2002)
Istanbul: Memories and the City [Novel] (2003)
The Museum of Innocence [Novel] (2008)
Nights of Plague [Novel] (2021)
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