Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| International Dublin Literary Award | 2017 | Shortlist |
About This Book
Orhan Pamuk's novel, translated from Turkish by Ekin Oklap, follows a street vendor named Mevlut across four decades in Istanbul, capturing the city's transformation from village customs to urban modernity. Shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award.
About the Author
Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist born in Istanbul on June 7, 1952, widely regarded as one of Turkey's most prominent literary figures and the first Turkish recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006. Raised in a wealthy but declining upper-class Istanbul family, he studied architecture at Istanbul Technical University before leaving to pursue writing full-time, later graduating from the University of Istanbul's Institute of Journalism. He has sold over thirteen million books in sixty-three languages and holds the position of Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. Read more →
