Orhan Pamuk

"I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books."

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Source: SPIEGEL Interview with Orhan Pamuk 'No One Drives Me into Exile'. Interview with Dieter Bednarz and Annette Grossbongardt, www.spiegel.de. May 2, 2007.

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Orhan Pamuk

Orhan Pamuk

Novelist, Screenwriter

Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist and Nobel laureate known for his intricate explorations of identity and memory in works like 'Snow' and 'The Museum of Innocence.'

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