Diversity of voices, diversity of languages : one week of events and readings in Lyon and in the Rhône-Alpes region.
Orhan Pamuk
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WRITER
Turkey
Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul in 1952 and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2006. He has published eight novels since 1982 that have been translated into more than sixty languages. His novels have won numerous awards, including the Prix Méditerranée étranger, the Prix Medicis, the Sonning Prize, and the Ricarda Huch Prize. Pamuk is also an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has spent time in the United States as a visiting writer fellow (University of Iowa) and a visiting scholar (Columbia University), and is currently the Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor of humanities in the writing department at Columbia University. In 2009 he received an honorary degree from the University of Rouen.
In 2005, the Union of German Booksellers awarded him the Peace Prize at the Frankfurt Book Fair, and in 2012 he was awarded France’s légion d’honneur.
