![]() ![]() While these themes have incited the wrath of some government officials, for large sections of Turkish and international society his work offers unique understanding, illuminating the cultural clash again at the centre of world politics. His novels have dealt with Turkish identity and modernity, and the relationship between the religious and cultural values of East and West which have formed them. Of his ten works in Turkish, six have been published in English, including most recently My Name is Red (2001) and Snow (2004). In January of 2006 Turkish state prosecutors' attempt to indict Pamuk for 'insulting Turkishness' failed, and their case against him was dropped in October of the same year he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. ![]() Pamuk has been the both the most internationally successful and probably the most domestically contentious Turkish author of recent times. Orhan Pamuk, Istanbul: Memories of a City (translated by Maureen Freely) London: Faber and Faber, 2006, 350pp. ![]()
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