Orhan Pamuk
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 Orhan Pamuk facts

• 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
• Pamuk is the author of novels including The White Castle, The Black Book, The New Life, My Name Is Red, Snow and The Museum of Innocence
• He is the Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he teaches writing and comparative literature
• Born in Istanbul, Pamuk is the first Turkish Nobel laureate
• He is also the recipient of numerous other literary awards
• My Name Is Red won the 2002 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, 2002 Premio Grinzane Cavour and 2003 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
• The European Writers' Parliament came about as a result of a joint proposal by Pamuk and José Saramago
• In 2005, the ultra-nationalist lawyer Kemal Kerinçsiz sued Pamuk over his statement regarding the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire
• His intention, according to Pamuk himself, had been to highlight issues relating to freedom of speech in the country of his birth
• The court initially rejected to hear the case, but in 2011 Pamuk was ordered to pay 6,000 liras in total compensation for having insulted the plaintiffs' honor