“Stunningly original…engrossing and sensual” (The Associated Press), Orhan Pamuk is one of Turkey’s most prestigious writers and winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. Characterized by examinations of identity, tensions between the East and West, modernism’s clash with tradition, and a fascination with the creative arts, Pamuk’s novels include The New Life, Snow, The Museum of Innocence, and My Name is Red, winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He is also the author of several works of nonfiction, essays, memoirs, and screenplays. A Strangeness in My Mind weaves a tale of an Istanbul street vendor’s dreams of success, the ethereal woman he loves, and the machinations of his mesmerizing city.

In conversation with Carlin Romano, Critic-at-Large,The Chronicle of Higher Education