Faber & Faber are proud to offer a celebratory collection of three novels by Orhan Pamuk to mark his Nobel Prize for Literature, 2006. About Orhan Pamuk Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul in 1952 and educated there at an American school. After dropping out of architecture he became a full-time writer and obtained a degree in journalism from Istanbul University. Since 1982, Pamuk has been one of Turkey's most successful authors. After three years in the USA, he returned to Istanbul, where he lives with his wife and daughter. In 1995 Pamuk was among a group of authors tried for criticising the Turkish regime's treatment of the Kurds. He is the author of seven novels. The White Castle won the 1990 Independent Award for Foreign Fiction; the publication of The New Life caused a sensation in his native land, becoming the fastest-selling book in Turkish history. In 2003 Pamuk was awarded the International IMPAC Award for My Name Is Red. Istanbul, published in 2005, was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and in 2006 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature