The Museum of Innocence Author: Orhan Pamuk [Türkiye] Publisher: Shanghai People's Publishing House

Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk is an internationally renowned giant in Turkish literature. He was born in Istanbul in 1952 and majored in architecture at Istanbul Technical University.

In 1979, his first work, "Governor Sevdet and His Sons", won the first prize of the novel of "Turkish Daily", and was published in 1982. In 1983, it won the Orhan Kemal Novel Award again.

His second novel, The Silent House, was published in 1983 and won the European Discovery Award in 1991. The French version was published in the same year.

In 1985, his first historical novel, The White Castle, was published. This novel made him famous all over the world. The New York Times Book Review said of him: "A new star is being born in the East - Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk." The book won the 1990 American Independent Foreign Fiction Award.

The publication of The Black Book in 1990 was a milestone. This novel made him controversial in the Turkish literary circle, but also widely loved by ordinary readers. The French version won the French Cultural Prize. In 1992, he completed the film script of The Hidden Face based on this novel.

The publication of "A New Life" in 1997 caused a sensation in Türkiye and became the fastest-selling book in Turkish history.

In 1998, "My Name is Red" was published, which established his literary status in the international literary world. He won the 2003 Dublin Literature Prize, which has a prize of 100,000 euros, the highest literary award in the world. He also won the French Literature and Art Award and the Italian Grinzane Cavour Literature Award.

In 2002, the author published the novel Snow, which became a bestseller and was selected as one of the "Best Books of the Year" by The New York Times Book Review in 2004. This book became an important factor in the author's winning of the Nobel Prize in Literature four years later.

In 2005, the author was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature for his new work Istanbul, and reportedly lost to the famous British playwright Harold Pinter by a narrow margin. In the same year, he won the German Book Industry Peace Prize.

On October 12, 2006, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "discovering new symbols in the collision and fusion of cultures while searching for the melancholy soul of his hometown" over the highly favored Syrian poet Adunis, American novelists Philip Roth and Carol Oates, Israeli novelist Amos Oz, Korean poet Ko Eun, and Canadian female writer Margaret Atwood.

His works have been translated into more than 40 languages ​​and published, and literary critics compare him with masters such as Proust, Thomas Mann, Calvino, Borges, and Umberto Eco.