SNOW by Orhan Pamuk

Links for the East Side Readers' discussion.

Winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize winner for fiction.... Orhan Pamuk. We'll be reading his novel SNOW, which was very well received in 2004/5. Here's a reading group guide and an excerpt.

Interviews::

• An audio roundtable discussion on Diane Rehm's show
• An interview by Steve Inskeep (an excerpt is on that page also)
• The author's page at Random House
• Links to several interviews and news stories about Pamuk on NPR
• Diane Rehm's interview with him about SNOW.
  

• Orhan Pamuk - The Official Site
• Interview links & articles on Pamuk's own site
• Orhan Pamuk - Wikipedia
• ORHAN PAMUK Turkish article about Pamuk from 1996
• Orhan Pamuk BIO & Interview in Turkish
• Astrology Research - Orhan Pamuk's astrology chart
• Frankfurt Book Fair Orhan Pamuk and the Turkish Paradox - SPIEGEL ONLINE (German interview from 2005)
• Orhan Pamuk bio
• On Reading Snow in Turkish

• The Nobel Prize in Literature 2006 - Presentation Speech
• Nobel Lecture (Video in Turkish)
• Nobel Lecture (Text, in English) (Thanks, William, for your suggestion)
• Nobel Interviews on video & audio -- Why He Writes
• Pamuk's Prize

• Amazon reviews, sorted by Most Helpful
• The New Yorker review by John Updike
• Pamuk's essay on his trial in The New Yorker
• David Remnick in The New Yorker on Pamuk & Turkey (2002)
• Links to Reviews of Snow - Orhan Pamuk
• Headscarves To Die For - NY Times review by Margaret Atwood
• The New York Review of Books: Essays by Orhan Pamuk
• Writers on Trial - NYTimes - Genocide is a bad word

Turkey:

• In Kars and Frankfurt --Pamuk writes for The Nation
• Ottoman Ghosts (Article about Turkish history/book review).
• Kars, Turkey-Adiyamanli.org
• East Anatolia -- The Roads to Kars
• Turkey -- Regions. Kars is way on the right
• Where is Turkey?
• Smart New Homes in Turkey
• Travel to Turkey
• Ministry of Culture, Republic of Turkey (couldn’t find Pamuk mentioned here…maybe he’s still an enemy of the state)
• Kars
• Turkish Daily News - Feb 12, 2007
• Topkapi Palace
• Turkish Topics (I couldn't find Pamuk here either)
• Turkey Photos - Kars
• Not much to see in Kars...(enjoyed his trip photos)
• kars turkey - Google Image Search
• Kars, Turkey... Google World

• Snowflake and Snow Crystal Photographs
• The Mystical White Snow :: Kabbalah says God made the earth from snow...
• Snow: The Dark Side :: In fact, the Hebrew word for snow -- sheleg -- has a numerical value (gematria) of 333 -- the same as the word shich'cha, which means forgetfulness. This seems to suggest that snow is not a vehicle for growth at all.
• Falling Snow 2.0 :: Your Snow Globe has arrived !

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