Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born 7 June 1952) is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, his work has sold over thirteen million books in sixty-three languages, making him the country's best-selling writer.
Pamuk is the author of novels including Silent House, The White Castle, The Black Book, The New Life, My Name Is Red, Snow, The Museum of Innocence, A Strangeness in My Mind, and The Red-Haired Woman. He is the Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he teaches writing and comparative literature. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018.
Of partial Circassian descent and born in Istanbul, Pamuk is the first Turkish Nobel laureate. He is also the recipient of numerous other literary awards. My Name Is Red won the 2002 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, 2002 Premio Grinzane Cavour and 2003 International Dublin Literary Award.
The European Writers' Parliament came about as a result of a joint proposal by Pamuk and José Saramago. In 2005, the ultra-nationalist lawyer Kemal Kerinçsiz sued Pamuk over his statement regarding the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. His intention, according to Pamuk himself, had been to highlight issues relating to freedom of speech in the country of his birth. The court initially declined to hear the case, but in 2011 Pamuk was ordered to pay 6,000 liras in total compensation for having insulted the plaintiffs' honor.
Hr. Cevdet og hans sønner er en familiesaga, som spænder over tre generationer i Istanbul i det 20. århundrede.
Ved romanens start i 1905 møder vi den senere familiepatriark Hr. Cevdet, som stædigt arbejder sig op og bliver en rig forretningsmand. Sammen med sin hustru, der er datter af en velhavende og indflydelsesrig pasa, flytter han ind i det hus i Nisantasi-kvarteret, der skal blive ramme om familiens liv og vidne til nøglebegivenheder i byens historie.
Gennem romanen følger vi den dramatiske overgang fra en traditionel osmannisk familieform til en mere vestlig livsstil. Sønnen Refik drømmer om at blive digter og europæer og fjerner sig mere og mere fra Koranens verdensopfattelse – og fra sin egen far. For barnebarnet Ahmet står der politik og kunst på dagsordenen i starten af 1970'erne.
Hr. Cevdet og hans sønner er en slægtsroman fuld af liv, humor, politik, kærlighed og kunst.
Den tyrkiske Nobelprismodtager Orhan Pamuk debuterede i 1982 med Hr. Cevdet og hans sønner, som både er inspireret af en europæisk romantradition og af forfatterens egen familiehistorie. Romanen foreligger nu for første gang på dansk.
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