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The Guardian view on the museum of the year: a history of the north-east in 3m objects

Editorial: From teapots to trams, Beamish tells the everyday stories of generations in a way that is unique to the region

The Guardian - UK

I’ve never seen such clampdowns in Istanbul. Turkey’s democracy is fighting for its life

The jailing of President Erdoğan’s main political rival is the low point of a decade-long march towards autocracy – but the protesters aren’t done yet either, says writer Orhan Pamuk

The Guardian - UK

Orhan Pamuk: ‘I have some fame, so I can say things others cannot’

The Turkish writer, 72, talks about his father’s artistic support and being a feminist in the Middle East, his love of Istanbul and fear of government repression

The Guardian - UK

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Memories of Distant Mountains by Orhan Pamuk review – journal of a private dreamworld

The Turkish Nobel laureate’s illustrated notebooks offer a vivid insight into his creative process

The Guardian - UK

Translation is a challenge, as more works are made into Tamil with a boom in publishing

The translation of Shakespeare's Hamlet into Tamil at the Chennai Book Fair highlights the challenges and importance of translation in the publishing industry.

The Hindu

On my radar: Orhan Pamuk’s cultural highlights

The Nobel prize-winning novelist on the wonders of the Louvre, a powerful film adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s memoir and being mesmerised by Tacita Dean

The Guardian - UK

Maureen Freely: ‘Turkey is a place where writers matter’

The author and academic on her exploration of a ‘dark chapter’ in Turkish history, how working as a translator changed her view of the world, and her long friendship with novelist Orhan Pamuk

The Guardian - UK

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Curfews, quarantine, fake news, insurrection: Orhan Pamuk's Nights of Plague feels eerily prescient

Nobel prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk spent five years working on Nights of Plague, well before the onset of the current pandemic. Perhaps he foresaw history repeating itself; the political fallout from the outbreak of the bubonic plague on his make-believe island of Mingheria in 1901 resonates eerily with our world…

The Conversation

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Shrines Of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson and Undoctored by Adam Kay.

The Independent UK

Nights of Plague by Orhan Pamuk review – a playful approach to big themes

The reader is cast as detective in this ludic novel about nationalism, pandemics and propaganda, set in the latter days of the Ottoman empire

The Guardian - UK

Top 10 novels about Turkey

Orhan Pamuk and Elif Shafak are the international star names, but all of these writers bring a distinctive lightness of heart to bear on a very heavy history

The Guardian - UK

Author Orhan Pamuk: ‘I used to have three bodyguards, now I have one’

Nobel prize winner Orhan Pamuk on Salman Rushdie’s attack, responding to extremism in Turkey – and his new, oddly prophetic, pandemic novel

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