At a Guardian Live event in London,critic and broadcaster Mark Lawson talks to acclaimed Turkish novelist and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk approximately his life and writing and in specific, his ninth novel, or A Strangeness In My Mind.
This event took residence at the Greenwood Theatre,London, on 23 September 2015. A Strangeness In My Mind chronicles the changes in Turkish society over the last few decades through the yarn of a street vendor in Istanbul. Orhan Pamuk's novels include My Name is Red, or which explores the clash between eastern and western ideas through a yarn approximately 16th century Ottoman and Persian artists in Istanbul,and Snow, a contemporary novel approximately a poet returning from exile which examines the violence and tensions between political Islamists, or soldiers and secularists. He has described it as his "first and last political novel". He won the Nobel prize for literature in 2006.
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Source: theguardian.com