Translated into 60 languages, it has sold more than 13 million books worldwide. Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Prize for Literature 2006, publishes today his sketchbooks “Memories of the mountains in the distance”, with Gallimard editions. Ten years of intimacy and reflections on the events of life, his encounters, his observations.
Interviewing a Nobel Prize in Literature is always an event. Receiving him for a truly singular, even intimate work, allows us to enter into what he does and what he is. Through his words, of course, but also through drawings, his own.
Because this is how, for more than 10 years, the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature, Orhan Pamuk, has been writing and drawing in his notebooks. A strange patchwork of images and letters, in which we discover reflections on the events of the moment, on the landscapes he crosses, on his reading or on the people he meets; travel notes; questions about his characters or the construction of his books… The Istanbul writer, the most widely read Turkish writer in the world, reveals a few pages to us today.
“Memories of the mountains in the distance”, the sketchbooks ofOrhan Pamukhave just been published in France by Gallimard, in a translation by Julien Lapeyre de Cabanes.
Simultaneous translation provided by Xavier Combe.
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