A real museum of imaginary lives, it contains 1,000 objects linked to the fictional characters in Pamuk’s 2008 novel of the same name. In 2012, Orhan Pamuk, Turkey’s only Nobel laureate in literature, opened his Museum of Innocence in a 19th century wooden house in Istanbul.

His reader’s guide to global fiction, The 100 Best Novels in Translation, is published by Galileo.If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores. He chaired the Man Booker International Prize 2016 and served as the prize’s Special Adviser. As Literary Editor and then Senior Writer of The Independent, he re-founded the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and judged it 2001-2015. His writing on literature and arts appears in international media including The Economist, The Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and Times Literary Supplement. In 2003 he won the IMPAC prize for My Name is Red, and in 2006 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.īoyd Tonkin is a writer, editor and critic who in 2020 was awarded the Royal Society of Literature’s Benson Medal for outstanding service to literature.

Pamuk is the author of many celebrated books of fiction, nonfiction, and photography. Soon, the eyes of the world will turn to this ancient island, where the future of a fragile empire is at stake, in an epic and playful mystery of passion, fear, scandal and murder, from one of history’s master storytellers. There are rumours of plague – rumours some in power will try to suppress. Because Mingheria is on the cusp of catastrophe. Not all of them will survive the weeks ahead. The ship carries Princess Pakize, the daughter of a deposed sultan, her doctor husband, and the Royal Chemist, Bonkowski Pasha. The 29th state of the ailing Ottoman Empire. With the stealth of a spy vessel, the royal ship Azizye approaches the famous vistas of Mingheria. What emerges is a story steeped in history and humanity that remains utterly relevant to our current world.ġ901.

Part historical novel, part detective story, Nights of Plague transports us back one hundred years, to a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire facing the devastating consequences of a plague epidemic.

From one of the greatest storytellers alive, the author of My Name Is Red and Snow, comes a brilliant, bold new epic. Pamuk will be interviewed by the legendary literary editor Boyd Tonkin. Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk joins us in Bath to celebrate and discuss his new novel, Nights of Plague.

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