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Orhan Pamuk

1952 - Today

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Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born 7 June 1952; Turkish pronunciation: [feˈɾit oɾˈhan paˈmuk]) is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, he has sold over 13 million books in 63 languages, making him the country's best-selling writer. Pamuk's novels include Silent House, The White Castle, The Black Book, The New Life, My Name Is Red and Snow. He is the Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he teaches writing and comparative literature. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Orhan Pamuk is the 199th most popular writer (down from 170th in 2019), the 75th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 77th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Turkish Writer.

Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist, poet, academic and journalist. He is best known for his novels The White Castle and My Name is Red.

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Among writers, Orhan Pamuk ranks 199 out of 7,302. Before him are Georges Simenon, Tove Jansson, Fuzûlî, Johannes V. Jensen, Menander, and François-René de Chateaubriand. After him are Friedrich Hölderlin, Joseph Conrad, Geoffrey Chaucer, Aldous Huxley, Imre Kertész, and Luís de Camões.

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Among people born in 1952, Orhan Pamuk ranks 7. Before him are Vladimir Putin, Patrick Swayze, Vajiralongkorn, Harvey Weinstein, Liam Neeson, and Steven Seagal. After him are David Hasselhoff, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Park Geun-hye, Roberto Benigni, Salome Zourabichvili, and Arkan.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Orhan Pamuk ranks 75 out of 1,347. Before him are Abdulmejid I (1823), Abdul Hamid I (1725), Mustafa II (1664), Şehzade Bayezid (1525), Theodora Porphyrogenita (984), and Apollonius of Perga (-262). After him are Priam (null), Selim III (1761), Mahmud I (1696), Şehzade Mehmed (1522), Abdullah Öcalan (1949), and Alexios I Komnenos (1048).

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Among WRITERS In Türkiye

Among writers born in Türkiye, Orhan Pamuk ranks 3. Before him are Hesiod (-800), and Ammianus Marcellinus (330). After him are Constantine VII (905), Anacreon (-570), Lucian (120), Dionysius of Halicarnassus (-60), Anna Komnene (1083), Giorgos Seferis (1900), Zosimus (460), Novatian (220), and Yunus Emre (1240).

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