Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 93. Chapters: Metin Kaçan, Orhan Pamuk, Katip Çelebi, Aziz Nesin, Ferhan Sensoy, Ziya Gökalp, Elif Safak, Ismail Cem Ipekçi, Nasuh Mahruki, Sabri Kalic, Çelik Gülersoy, Sunay Akin, Burak Eldem, Yilmaz Onay, Ataol Behramoglu, Necip Fazil Kisakürek, Ismet Özel, Oguz Atay, Buket Uzuner, Zülfü Livaneli, Üzeyir Garih, Mehmed Uzun, Feridun Zaimoglu, Alev Alatli, Selçuk Altun, Mikhail Gurevich, Soner Cagaptay, Attilâ Ilhan, Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan, Ayse Kulin, Zafer Aracagök, Nihal Atsiz, Setenay Özbek, Sait Faik Abasiyanik, Ahmed Hulusi, Duygu Asena, Emin Çölasan, Ahmet Hasim, Vartan Pasha, Irfan Orga, Mehmet Murat Somer, Asli Erdogan, Onat Kutlar, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, Bülent Atalay, Füruzan, Meltem Arikan, Ahmed Bican Yazicioglu, Bahriye Üçok, Mustafa Olpak, Yekta Uzunoglu, Adnan Adivar, Riza Tevfik Bölükbasi, Rifat Ilgaz, Mehmet Coral, Ruhi Khalidi, Enis Batur, Sabahattin Ali, Can Bartu, Aydilge, Oya Baydar, Ahmet Altan, Mehmed Emîn Bozarslan, Sabit Ince, Mustafa Balel, Ercan Akbay, Rekin Teksoy, Moris Farhi, Ihsan Oktay Anar, Aysel Gürel, Sabahattin Eyüboglu, Mahmut Tolon, Ahmed Vefik Pasha, Altan Öymen, Yusuf Akçura, Muzaffer Izgü, Sevin Okyay, Mario Levi, Giritli Ali Aziz Efendi, Üstün Bilgen-Reinart, Bilge Umar, Ahmad Hilmi of Filibe, Ali Cimen, Banu Avar, Çetin Özek, Burhan Sonmez, Fuat Sezgin, Ömer Seyfettin, Duran Çetin, Nezihe Muhiddin, Rahîm Er, Cevat Sakir Kabaagaçli, Ahmet Almaz, Ümit Ünal, Ilhan Selçuk, Lokman Polat, Ahmet Ümit, Ali Bayramoglu, Ali Riza Seyfi, Emine Caykara, Latife Tekin, Ahmet Köklügiller, Resat Ekrem Koçu, Kutlu Adali, Ugur Soldan, Necdet Sançar, Ahmet Serif Izgören, Cahit Zarifoglu, Etyen Mahçupyan, Ümit Kaftancioglu, Ahmet Arvasi, Mehmet Güreli, Yusuf Atilgan, Münir Göle, Neyzen Tevfik, Cemal Süreya, Peride Celal, Mustafa Ziyalan, Ömer Asan, Hasan Ali Toptas, Azra Erhat, Nurduran Duman, Nihan Kaya, Ayfer Tunç, Raci Sasmaz, Murat Gülsoy, Dogan Kuban, Mehmet Eroglu, Renan Demirkan, Fethiye Çetin, Serdar Kuru, Ahmet Hulki Saral, Halide Nusret Zorlutuna, Rabia Kazan, Ugur Dündar, Osman Nuri Topbas, Sükrü Kaya, Selâhattin Kantar, Zeynep Ahunbay, Giritli Sirri Pasha, Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, Samiha Ayverdi, Çetin Altan, Süreyya Agaoglu, Sevtap Baycili, Özhan Öztürk, Turgut Berkes, Mehmet Ali Birand, Sadik Yemni, Halil Gür, Cumhur Oranci, Solomon Kimhi, Recep Uslu, Karekin Deveciyan, Mahmut Senol, Kaan Ince, Pioneers of Science, Edip Kizildagli, Safveti Ziya. Excerpt: Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born 7 June 1952), generally known simply as Orhan Pamuk, is a Turkish novelist. He is also the Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he teaches comparative literature and writing. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, his work has sold over seven million books in more than fifty languages, making him the country's best-selling writer. Pamuk is the recipient of numerous literary awards, including the Nobel Prize in Literature 2006-the first Nobel Prize to be awarded to a Turkish citizen. Pamuk was born in Istanbul in 1952 and grew up in a wealthy yet declining bourgeois family, an experience he describes in passing in his novels The Black Book and Cevdet Bey and His Sons, as well as more thoroughly in his personal memoir Istanbul. He was educated at Robert College secondary school in Istanbul and went on to study architecture at the Istanbul Technical University since it was related to his real dream career, painting. He left the architecture school after three years, ...