Conversations with Orhan Pamuk

In over thirty interviews conducted between 1982 and 2022 <i>Conversations with Orhan Pamuk</i> reveals a writer of intense literary and political engagement. <p/>Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk (b. 1952) is a foremost practitioner of the global novel today. His books have been translated into over sixty languages and sold over fifteen million copies globally. <p/>The interviews in this volume open windows onto Pamuk's everyday life craft and process constituting an alternative literary history that provides insights into the novelist's influences method form and content. These conversations reveal that a Pamuk novel is predicated on methodical research at times archival and scholarly investigative and journalistic or ethnographic. They are necessarily instructive and edifying as much as they are entertaining providing a discursive space of literary history where writing politics and the everyday intersect and where the politics of literature can be located.