Wednesday, 25. March 2015, 18:30 – 20:00 h
At the University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich, KOL-G-201 (Aula)
As he writes in his autobiographical essay about Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk initially wanted to become a painter. The "Museum of Innocence" is now both a novel, which was published in 2008, and a veritable museum that Pamuk has opened in Istanbul. The artist talks about this project and how he sees himself as an author for whom the visual is central. Questions also arise about the nature of the political novel.
Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul in 1952, grew up in a middle-class family and studied architecture and journalism before turning to writing. He was already awarded major Turkish literary prizes for his first two novels "Cevdet and His Sons" (German first edition 2011) and "The Silent House" (German 2009). From 1985 to 1988, Orhan Pamuk was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in New York. The winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature now lives in Istanbul and New York.