In an article in The Guardian, author Orhan Pamuk said:
It seems if you write fiction [in the West] your nationality is not that important, but if you write fiction in [the Middle East] your nationality and, even worse, ethnicity are important. When an English writer writes about a love affair he writes about humanity’s love [...]

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In Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk often explores the line between person and place. He clearly believes living in Istanbul has deeply impacted who he is and how he writes:
Conrad, Nabokov, Naipaul — these are writers known for having managed to migrate between languages, cultures, countries, continents, and even civilizations. Their imaginations were fed by exile, a [...]

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The next book I plan on reading is Orhan Pamuk’s memoir of his birthplace, Istanbul. Pamuk is a Nobel Prize winning author, and I can tell from the few pages I’ve read thus far, that the book will be good. This is how Publisher’s Weekly describes the book:
Turkish novelist Pamuk (Snow) presents a breathtaking portrait [...]

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