Orhan Pamuk

E80421

Orhan Pamuk is a Nobel Prize–winning Turkish novelist renowned for his complex, introspective works that explore identity, history, and the tensions between East and West.

Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

Observed surface forms (3)


Statements (68)

Predicate Object
instanceOf essayist
human
novelist
screenwriter
university professor
awardReceived International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Nobel Prize in Literature
surface form: Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize in Literature
Peace Prize of the German Book Trade
Prix Médicis
surface form: Prix Médicis étranger

Sonning Prize
birthName Orhan Pamuk self-linksurface differs
surface form: Ferit Orhan Pamuk
countryOfCitizenship Turkey
dateOfBirth 1952-06-07
educatedAt Istanbul Technical University
Istanbul University
Robert College (higher education section)
surface form: Robert College
familyName Pamuk
fieldOfWork literature
novel
postmodern literature
gender male
givenName Orhan
hasAcademicPosition Columbia University
hasChild Rüya Pamuk
hasControversy prosecution under Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code
hasWebsite http://www.orhanpamuk.net/
influencedBy Fyodor Dostoevsky
Italo Calvino
Jorge Luis Borges
Marcel Proust
Thomas Mann
languageOfWorkOrName Turkish
maritalStatus divorced
movement postmodernism
name Orhan Pamuk self-link
nationality Turkish
NobelPrizeCategory Literature
NobelPrizeYear 2006
notableFor exploring tensions between East and West
notableWork A Strangeness in My Mind
Istanbul: Memories and the City
My Name Is Red
Silent House
Snow
The Black Book
The Museum of Innocence
The Red-Haired Woman
White Castle
surface form: The White Castle
occupation novelist
professor
writer
placeOfBirth Istanbul
politicalStance critical of Turkish nationalism
positionHeld professor of the humanities
religion culturally Muslim
residence Istanbul
studied architecture
journalism
subjectOf literary criticism
writingStyle complex
introspective
writingTheme East–West relations
history
identity
memory
modernity
tradition

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

My Name Is Red author Orhan Pamuk
Snow author Orhan Pamuk
subject surface form: Snow (novel)
Orhan Pamuk birthName Orhan Pamuk self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Ferit Orhan Pamuk
this entity surface form: Orhan Pamuk (attended briefly)
Orhan Pamuk name Orhan Pamuk self-link
Snow narrator Orhan Pamuk
subject surface form: Snow (novel)
this entity surface form: Orhan (fictionalized version of Orhan Pamuk)
Turkish literature notableAuthor Orhan Pamuk