On my radar: Orhan Pamuk’s cultural highlights
The Nobel prize-winning novelist on the wonders of the Louvre, a powerful film adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s memoir and being mesmerised by Tacita DeanOrhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul in 1952. He initially dreamed of becoming a painter but turned to writing in his early 20s and published his first novel in Turkish in 1982. Best known for My Name Is Red and Snow, he was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 2006 and praised for discovering “new symbols for the clash and interlacing
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