In this episode, you can hear a conversation between the Turkish writer and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, and professor of Cultural History at the University of Oslo, Helge Jordheim. Pamuk visited Oslo spring 2017, when his most recent book The Red-Haired Woman was out in Norwegian translation by Ingeborg Fossestøl. The conversation took place on May 24th, 2017.

For more than thirty years, writer and Nobel Prize Laureate Orhan Pamuk has written world literature with Turkey as his vantage point. His strong interest in myths and stories, society and history runs like a common thread throughout his body of work, which connects Eastern and Western cultural heritage and modernity. He is Turkey’s most-read writer, but he is also contested, and he fearlessly takes on complex questions about politics and society, conflicted identities or the life of the artist. Orhan Pamuk was awarded the Nobel Prize of Literature in 2006.

 

Lithouse is a podcast from the House of Literature in Oslo, presenting adapted versions of lectures and conversations featuring international writers and thinkers. Music by Apothek.

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