• Director(s):

    DAMOISEL (MATHILDE)

  • Producer(s):

    SECONDE VAGUE PRODUCTIONS, ARTE FRANCE

  • Territories:

    Worldwide (except United States).

  • Production year:

    2014

  • Language(s):

    German, French

  • Rights:

    TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD

Nobel Prize-winner for Literature in 2006, Orhan Pamuk is the most widely-read Turkish author in the world. Born in Istanbul in 1952, he explores “the melancholic soul of his native city” in his novels The Black Book, The New Life and Snow.

Translated into 61 languages, he uses his international fame to talk about the most taboo subjects of Turkish society. In 2005, he recognised the existence of the Armenian genocide, which saw him charged for “deliberately insulting Turkish identity”. And more recently, in 2013, he supported the Taksim Square demonstrators.
 
Yet despite tension with power, caused by the stances he takes, he still lives in the building he grew up in, in Istanbul. His first book, Cevdet Bey and His Sons, published in 1982, has just been translated into French.