Orhan Pamuk
is the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature. His novels, including The White Castle, My Name is Red, The Black Book, Snow, and most recently the non-fictional Istanbul, have been translated into over forty languages. Orhan Pamuk delivered the opening address at the Eurozine conference in Istanbul 2005.
Pamuk's Nobel lecture is available in Turkish, English, German, French and Swedish at Nobelprize.org.Eurozine Articles
Neighbourhoods
Opening address at the 18th European Meeting of Cultural Journals
For Orhan Pamuk, "neighbourhood" implies openness to neighbouring cultures but also provincial mistrust. Cultural journals' role, he says, should be to encourage non-conformity. [French and German versions added] [more]





