Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk
Ferit Orhan Pamukis a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, his work has sold over thirteen million books in sixty-three languages, making him the country's best-selling writer...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 June 1952
CityIstanbul, Turkey
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Thirty-thousand Kurds and one million Armenians were killed in these lands and nobody but me dares to talk about it,
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Thirty thousand Kurds and 1 million Armenians were killed in these lands and nobody but me dares to talk about it,
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I repeat, I said loud and clear that 1 million Armenians and 30,000 Kurds were killed in Turkey, and I stand by that.
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he complains. ''Otherwise it's offensive to discuss poverty and suicide; they talk about these things as if they happen in a land beyond the civilized world.
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I don't look at emails, Internet or newspapers before 1 P.M. I wake at 7 A.M., eat fruit, drink tea or coffee, and read what I've achieved, or not achieved, the previous day. Then I take a shower and work on my next sentence until 1 P.M. After I've done emails and so on, I write again from 3 P.M. until 8 P.M.; then I socialise.
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The first edition was 100,000 copies, a huge economic risk for the publisher. I was quite proud of the fact that the book was not banned or censored.
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I have hired a bodyguard, on the recommendation of my friends and the government. It's outrageous, having to live like this.
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Enjoyment of football is part of the social context, and I have lost my faith in this social context.
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I very much enjoy reading other writers' diaries, mainly because it makes me ask myself: Are they like you? How do they think?
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Morality is probably the last thing one can learn from football.
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I do not believe in a personal connection to God; that's where it gets transcendental.
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I consider myself a person who comes from a Muslim culture. In any case, I would not say that I'm an atheist. So I'm a Muslim who associates historical and cultural identification with this religion.
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My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family.
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Nationalism stems from catastrophes, whether they are caused by earthquakes or lost wars.