Ferit Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, he has sold over 13 million books in 63
Pamuk in 2009
Pamuk and his Turkish Angora cat at his personal writing space
Kiran Desai is an Indian author. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. In 2015, The Economic Times named her one of 20
Orhan Pamuk
…Lecturer, delivering a series of lectures titled "The Naive and Sentimental Novelist". Orhan publicly acknowledged his relationship with the writer Kiran Desai. In January 2011, Turkish-Armenian artist Karolin Fişekçi told Hürriyet Daily News that Pamuk had a two-and-a-half-year relationship with her during…
Desai reading on behalf of Salman Rushdie at the 2024 National Book Awards finalist reading