Orhan Pamuk receiving his Nobel Prize from His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 10 December 2006. Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 2006
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Orhan Pamuk after receiving his Nobel Prize at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 10 December 2006. Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 2006
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Orhan Pamuk with daughter, Rüya, after the Nobel Prize Award Cremony. Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 2006
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Orhan Pamuk delivering his banquet speech.

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Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk and his daughter, Rüya (left), with the Royal Swedish siblings (from left, Crown Princess Victoria, Princess Madeleine and Prince Carl Philip), at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2006. Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 2006
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Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk, his daughter, Rüya (left), and the Royal Swedish siblings (from left, Crown Princess Victoria, Princess Madeleine and Prince Carl Philip) having a good time at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2006. Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 2006
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All the 2006 Nobel Laureates assembled for a group photo during their visit to the Nobel Foundation, 12 December 2006. Left to right: John C. Mather, Edmund S. Phelps, Roger Kornberg, Dipal Chandra Barua (representing Grameen Bank), Orhan Pamuk, Andrew Z. Fire, Craig C. Mello, Muhammad Yunus, and George F. Smoot. Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 2006
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Orhan Pamuk during his visit to Rinkebyskolan in Stockholm, 12 December 2006. Copyright © Nobel Media AB 2006
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Orhan Pamuk and students from Rinkebyskolan in Stockholm, 12 December 2006. Copyright © Nobel Media AB 2006
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Orhan Pamuk during the Nobel Foundation reception at the Nordic Museum in Stockholm, 9 December 2006. Copyright © Nobel Media AB 2006
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Orhan Pamuk (left) at the interview in Stockholm, 6 December 2006. The interviewer is Professor Horace Engdahl, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy. Copyright © Nobel Media AB 2006
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Turkish writer and Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk meets with the press at Columbia University in New York after it was announced that he was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk.

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Orhan Pamuk visiting the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, 16 May 2017. Copyright © Nobel Media AB 2017
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Orhan Pamuk writes his books by hand, using a fountain reservoir pen. During his visit to the Nobel Museum in Stockholm on 16 May 2017, he donated a page from the novel he is currently working on. Copyright © Nobel Media AB 2017
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