Orhan Pamuk, one of the most famous novelists of Turkish and world literature, was awarded the Costa Smeralda Literature Award. Pamuk deserved this award with all his works. Pamuk, who received his award on the Italian island of Sardinia on Saturday, May 28, gave a speech in Nuoro, the city where the world-famous Sardinian writer Grazia Deledda was born.
Orhan Pamuk's latest novel, Plague Nights, published by Yapı Kredi Publishing in March 2021, was recently published in Russian, Serbian, French, German, Spanish, Catalan and Korean. The famous writer, who has been abroad for a while to promote the novel, which entered the bestseller lists in France, Spain and Germany, came together with his fans abroad. It has also been announced that Orhan Pamuk will lecture on literature for four weeks at the Collège de France in Paris next year.