Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk in Athens

Noted Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, the 2006 Nobel Prize laureate in literature, will give a lecture at Athens Concert Hall (Megaron) on Jan. 11, within the framework of the Megaron Plus cultural programme.

According to Pamuk, “the modern world can conquer a deeper self-awareness through literature which serves as a mirror that reflects its contradictions, deceptions and dead ends”.

The Nobel laureate’s meeting with his fans in Greece was initially scheduled to take place last March but it was cancelled for personal reasons.

Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul in 1952. After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul, he studied architecture at Istanbul’s Technical University. He also studied journalism. His first novel, entitled “Cevdet Bey and His Sons”, was published in 1982.