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A Nobel man

Updated on: 02 February,2010 09:52 AM IST  | 
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Orhan Pamuk is in the country to promote his new novel Masumiyet Muzesi (The Museum Of Innocence).

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Orhan Pamuk is in the country to promote his new novel Masumiyet Muzesi (The Museum Of Innocence). The Nobel Prize winner is all set to take-off to Goa with his Booker Prize winner girlfriend Kiran Desai. Here's more on Pamuk:u00a0

>>u00a0Ferit Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist and a professor at the Columbia University, where he teaches comparative literature and writing.

>>u00a0He joined an architecture school only to leave it after three years to become a full-time writer.

>>u00a0His first novel, Karanlik ve Isik (Darkness and Light) was a co-winner at the 1979 Milliyet Press Novel Contest.

>>u00a0In 1990, Pamuk's novel Kara Kitap (The Black Book) became one of the most controversial and popular readings in Turkish literature due to its complexity and richness.

>>u00a0In 2005, Pamuk received the u00a425,000 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade for his literary work.

>>u00a0On October 12, 2006, the Swedish Academy announced that Pamuk had been awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in literature.




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