Memories of Distant Mountains are the journals of the Nobel Prize–winning author, beautifully illustrated with his own paintings.
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About Memories of Distant Mountains
For many years, Orhan Pamuk kept a record of his daily thoughts and observations, entering them in small notebooks and illustrating them with his own paintings. This book combines those notebooks into one volume. He writes about his travels around the world, his family, his writing process, and his complex relationship with his home country of Turkey.
He charts the seeds of his novels and the things that inspired his characters and the plots of his stories. Intertwined in his writings are the vibrant paintings of the landscapes that surround and inspire him.
A beautiful object in its own right, in Memories of Distant Mountains readers can explore Pamuk’s intoxicating inner world and can have a fascinating, intimate encounter with the art, culture, and charged political currents that have shaped one of literature’s most important voices.
Praise for Memories of Distant Mountains
Kirkus Reviews
“Pictures of a writer’s days. . . . An intimate volume revealing glimpses of his life and work. . . . Although he gave up artwork in favor of writing, he still finds pleasure in combining both, as did William Blake. . . . Some illustrations, glowing with pinks, greens, and yellows, evoke Matisse. In slashes of black and grey, Pamuk captures the dark mysteries of seascapes; in other drawings, he tries to convey the quality of his dreams. . . . A lyrical illuminated memoir.”
About Orhan Pamuk, Author of Memories of Distant Mountains
ORHAN PAMUK won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. His novel My Name Is Red won the 2003 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His work has been translated into more than sixty languages. He lives in Istanbul.
Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey’s most prominent novelists, he has sold over 13 million books in 63 languages, making him the country’s best-selling writer.
Of partial Circassian descent and born in Istanbul, Pamuk is the first Turkish Nobel laureate. He is also the recipient of numerous other literary awards.
The European Writers’ Parliament came about as a result of a joint proposal by Pamuk and José Saramago. Pamuk’s willingness to write books about contentious historical and political events put him at risk of censure in his homeland. In 2005, a lawyer sued him over a statement acknowledging the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire. Pamuk said his intention had been to highlight issues of freedom of speech in Turkey. The court initially declined to hear the case, but in 2011 Pamuk was ordered to pay 6,000 liras in compensation for having insulted the plaintiffs’ honor.
He is the author of Three Historical Novels, Three Istanbul Novels, Nights of Plague, Orange (Turuncu), Balkon, Fathers Mothers and Sons, Innocence of Memories, The Red-Haired Woman, Illustrated Istanbul, The Black Book, A Strangeness in My Mind, I Am A Tree, The Secrets of the Black Book, Museum of Innocence, Istanbul: Memories and the City, Snow, Other Colors, My Name Is Red, Cevdet Bey and His Sons, The White Castle, The New Life, The House of Silence, My Father’s Suitcase, Secret Face, Fragments of the Landscape, The Innocence of Objects, and The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist.
Source: Publisher and Wikipedia
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN 9780593801246
Pub Date: Nov 26, 2024
Titles by Orhan Pamuk
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