The Turkish Nobel Prize winner for Literature will also be awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa title by the State University of Tirana
Tirana Times
TIRANA, May 11 – Orhan Pamuk, the Turkish Nobel Prize winner for Literature, will pay his first visit to Albania to promote his newest book translated into Albanian.
Pamuk will be in Albania from May 17 to 19, the “Skanderbeg Books” publishing house says. During his three-day visit to Albania, Pamuk will also visit the southern UNESCO World Heritage town of Berat, of which he has expressed special interest.
The Turkish novelist will also be awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa title by the State University of Tirana and have a series of meetings with renowned personalities of Albanian arts, culture and politics.
The “Skanderbeg Books” publishing house had promised to bring Orhan Pamuk since 2006 when his first book “My Name is Red” was translated into Albanian but the visit was postponed because the novelist won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
“The Snow,” “The White Castle,” “The Silent House,” “The New Life” are some of Pamuk’s books that have been translated into Albanian.
Raised in a Western-oriented family, Pamuk, 58, was educated in Istanbul and received a degree in journalism. He published his first novel in 1982 and achieved international fame with “The White Castle” (1985), set in 17th-century Istanbul. He lived in the United States in the late 1980s. His works, often autobiographical and intricately plotted, probe the tensions between East and West.
In 2005 the Turkish government generated international controversy when it put Pamuk on trial for “denigrating Turkishness.”
Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006.
