Turkish Novelists (Book Guide)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Orhan Pamuk, Aziz Nesin, Ya?ar Kemal, Halide Edip Ad?var, Fatma Aliye Topuz, Elif ?afak, H?fz? Topuz, Y?lmaz Onay, O?uz Atay, Buket Uzuner, Z lf Livaneli, Feridun Zaimo?lu, Kemal Tahir, Sel uk Altun, Attil lhan, Sait Faik Abas?yan?k, Hikmet Temel Akarsu, Mehmet Murat Somer, Asl? Erdo?an, Orhan Kemal, Ahmet Hamdi Tanp?nar, F ruzan, Meltem Ar?kan, Re?at Nuri G ntekin, R?fat Ilgaz, Sabahattin Ali, Nedim G rsel, a?da? etinkaya, Oya Baydar, Ahmet Altan, Sabit ?nce, Mustafa Balel, Necati Cumal?, Yakup Kadri Karaosmano?lu, Mario Levi, Murathan Mungan, Nazan Bekiro?lu, Halit Ziya U?akl?gil, mer Seyfettin, ?lhan Sel uk, Adalet A?ao?lu, Latife Tekin, M?g?rdi Margosyan, Tuna Kiremitci, Hakan Toker, Peride Celal, H seyin Rahmi G rp?nar, Osman Necmi G rmen, Ayfer Tun, Murat G lsoy, Alper Sezener, Emre Miyaso?lu, Mehmet Culum, G neli G n. Excerpt: Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born 7 June 1952), generally known simply as Orhan Pamuk, is a Turkish novelist. He is also the Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he teaches comparative literature and writing. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, his work has sold over seven million books in more than fifty languages, making him the country's best-selling writer. Pamuk is the recipient of numerous literary awards, including the Nobel Prize in Literature 2006, the first Nobel Prize to be awarded to a Turkish citizen. Pamuk was born in Istanbul in 1952 and grew up in a wealthy yet declining bourgeois family; an experience he describes in passing in his novels The Black Book and Cevdet Bey and His Sons, as well as more thoroughly in his personal memoir Istanbul. He was educated at Robert College secondary school in Istanbul and went on to study architecture at the Istanbul Technical University since it was related to his real dream career, paintin...