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Orhan Pamuk is a writer and essayist who holds the Robert Yik-Fong Chair in the Humanities at Columbia University, New York. Author of numerous novels, including Cevdet Bey et ses fils (1982), La Maison du silence (1983), Le Château blanc (1985), Le Livre noir (1990), La Vie nouvelle (1995), Mon nom est Rouge (1998), Neige (2002), Istanbul, souvenirs d'une ville (2003), Le Musée de l'innocence (2008), Cette chose étrange en moi (2014) and La Femme aux cheveux roux (2016), he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. The translation of his latest novel, Les Nuits de la peste, was published in March 2022 by Gallimard.