Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish author and academic born on June 7, 1952 in Istanbul.
The grandson of a civil engineer and entrepreneur who found great success in the railroad and manufacturing sectors, Pamuk spent much of his young life with aspirations of becoming an artist. Growing up in the wealthy and Westernised area of Nisantasi, Pamuk attended the prestigious American school Robert College, then went on to study architecture at Istanbul Technical University. After three years, at the age of...