My Name is Red

My Name Is Red (Benim Adım Kırmızı) is a Turkish novel by Nobel laureate author Orhan Pamuk. The English translation won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2003,. The French version won the French Prix du meilleur livre étranger and the Italian version the Premio Grinzane Cavour in 2002. The novel and its English translation established Pamuk's international reputation and contributed to his winning of the Nobel prize. In recognitio... more

My Name Is Red (Benim Adım Kırmızı) is a Turkish novel by Nobel laureate author Orhan Pamuk. The English translation won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2003,. The French version won the French Prix du meilleur livre étranger and the Italian version the Premio Grinzane Cavour in 2002. The novel and its English translation established Pamuk's international reputation and contributed to his winning of the Nobel prize. In recognition of its exceptional status in Pamuk's oeuvre, the novel will be re-published in Erdag Goknar's translation as part of the Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics series in 2010. This is recognition of the novel's status in the international canon of literature along with the novels of authors like Joyce, Kafka, Mann, Nabokov, and Rushdie whose influences can be seen in Pamuk's work. BBC Radio 4 broadcast a radio play version of the novel in 2008. The main characters in the novel are miniaturists in the Ottoman Empire. The events revolve... less