The Two Souls of Turkey

In: New perspectives quarterly: NPQ, Band 26, Heft 4, S. 72-76

Abstract

Orhan Pamuk, Turkey's best known novelist, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. I spoke with him in his beloved Istanbul just after his novel Snow—which explores the clashes and symmetries of secularism, nationalism and Islam in Turkish hearts and minds—was published in English in 2005.