![]() ![]() ![]() I’m glad I persevered, though, because Pamuk reminds me that the truly rewarding writers aren’t necessarily the ones we like immediately. I read him for the first time on a visit to Istanbul and admit that, at first, I was more enchanted by the city than by the prose. That left him plenty of time to add to his achievements, and his subsequent output, which includes his epic novel The Museum of Innocence (2008), is warmer, funnier and more beautiful than the works that preceded it.Īnd yet I still know a surprising number of readers who find Pamuk’s writing dense and emotionally cold. Whereas many writers, such as Alice Munro and VS Naipaul, received the top honour near the ends of their careers, Pamuk was only 54 when, in 2006, he became Turkey’s first Nobel Laureate. Orhan Pamuk is becoming that rare author who writes his best books after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. ![]()
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