Orhan Pamuk
b. 1952 · Türkiye · Literature
Nobel Prize in Literature, 2006
Novelist of Istanbul's melancholy and East–West fracture.
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Inherited from3
- Jorge Luis Borges
1899 – 1986 · Literature, Philosophy
The library, the labyrinth and the counterfeit manuscript are Borgesian devices in Pamuk.
- Naguib Mahfouz
1911 – 2006 · Literature
The city novel as national chronicle passes from Cairo to Istanbul.
- S. Y. Agnon
1888 – 1970 · Literature
The modern novel built from a sacred textual tradition is Agnon's bequest.
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