Snow, which he calls “my first and last political novel,” was published in 2002. In 1999, he released 'Other Colors', a wide collection of literary and cultural essays he published in various newspapers and magazines in Turkey and abroad. As of the mid 1990s, Pamuk began criticizing the Turkish state with his articles on human rights and freedom of thought. Narrating Ottoman and Persian calligraphers, as well as non-Western ways of seeing and painting around a tale of love and family intrigue, 'My Name is Red' (1998) was awarded Prix du Meilleur livre étranger in France (2002), Grinzane Cavour (2002) in Italy, and International Impac-Dublin (2003) in Ireland. Pamuk published the lyrical novel 'The New Life', which centers around a young engineering student inspired by a mysterious book. In 1991, Pamuk’s daughter Rüya (“dream”) was born. Having won Prix France Culture with its French translation, this novel further spread his name both in Turkey and abroad as a writer that can narrate the past and the present with the same excitement. In 1990, he published 'The Black Book', which narrates the streets, history, chemistry, and fabric of Istanbul through a lawyer in search of his wife. with his wife and served as a visiting faculty member at Columbia University. His novel 'The White Castle' (1985), which chronicles the tension and friendship between a Venetian slave and an Ottoman scholar, was translated into many languages and was the first novel that brought international recognition to Pamuk. The following year, Pamuk released 'The Silent House' and won Prix de la Découverte Européenne with the French translation of this novel in 2001. His first novel Cevdet Bey and His Sons in 1982 and received the Orhan Kemal Novel Award and the Milliyet Novel Prize. Deciding to be a novelist at twenty-three instead, Pamuk set everything else aside, confined himself to his house, and began writing. He graduated from Robert College in Istanbul and after studying architecture at Istanbul Technical University for three years, he realized he neither wanted become an architect, nor an artist, quit school, and went on to study journalism at Istanbul University. As recounted in his autobiographical work titled, 'Istanbul” he painted intensively throughout his entire childhood, teenage years, and early adult life until the age of twenty-two, imagining that he would become an artist in the future. He was raised in Nişantaşı in a crowded family, similar to the ones he depicted in his novels Cevdet Bey and His Sons and The Black Book. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul in 1952.

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