“Believing that Sibel was saying these things to me to make me angry, I got angry. But this is not to say that the fury owed nothing to my partial awareness that she was right.”

Turkish novelist, screenwriter, and academic

Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, and academic. He is one of Turkey’s most prominent novelists and received the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. His books have sold more than 13 million copies and have been published in 63 languages, which has made him Turkey’s best-selling writer. His work has reached a wide international readership and established him as a major literary figure.