2006
Roger D. Kornberg – Nobel diploma
Nobel diploma
Roger D. Kornberg – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen I am deeply grateful for the honor bestowed on me by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is an honor I share with many collaborators. My wife Yahli has been my closest collaborator. She has borne a double burden. She is the wife…
moreRoger D. Kornberg – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Lecture
Orhan Pamuk – Other resources
Other resources
Links to other sites Video ‘Conversations with History: Orhan Pamuk’ from University of California at Berkeley
moreOrhan Pamuk – Prose
Prose
English Excerpt from Istanbul: Memories of a City (Istanbul: Hatıralar Ve Şehir). Here we come to the heart of the matter: I’ve never left Istanbul – never left the houses, streets and neighbourhoods of my childhood. Although I’ve lived in other districts from time to time, fifty years on I find myself…
moreOrhan Pamuk – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Why do you write? This is the question I’ve been asked most often in my writing career. Most of the time they mean this: What is the point, why do you give your time to this strange and impossible activity? Why do you write … You have to give an excuse, an…
moreOrhan Pamuk – Prose
Prose
Turkish Alıntı: Istanbul: Hatıralar Ve Şehir Asıl konuya geldik: Doğduğum günden itibaren, yaşadığım evleri, sokakları, mahalleleri hiç terketmedim. Elli yıl sonra (arada İstanbul’un başka yerlerinde yaşamama rağmen) gene Pamuk Apartmanı’nda, annemin beni kucağına alıp dünyayı ilk gösterdiği ve ilk fotoğraflarımın çekildiği yerde yaşıyor olmamın, İstanbul’un bir başka yerindeki öteki Orhan fikriyle, bu teselliyle bir ilişkisi…
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