Orhan Pamuk

Turkey will not continue to grow in science and technology unless it also earmarks more for research and development, Sabanc?

Turkey's Nobel laureate has warned the country could collapse into sectarian conflict and blamed President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an for the climate of insecurity brutally illustrated by Oct. 10 deadly attacks in Ankara.

"Ay vud layk to tank di Nobel komiti?" 

Oh, I'm kidding. Both our Nobel laureates Aziz Sancar (2015) and Orhan Pamuk (2006) are fluent English speakers. But as a Turkish person with ears used to the accent, I can pick up the Turkish stress in their spoken English - a nuance I like very much. 

Exhibits from the Museum of Innocence, the award-winning Istanbul museum created by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk in 2012, will go on show early next year at the Somerset House in London as part of a special display, the Art Newspaper has reported.

A Turkish-American DNA scientist is among the three names to win this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry, the award-giving body announced on Oct. 7.

Aziz Sancar, Sweden's Tomas Lindahl, and the U.S.-based Paul Modrich won the prize for work on mapping how cells repair damaged DNA.

?A Strangeness in My Mind? by Orhan Pamuk, translated by Ekin Oklap (Faber £20/Knopf $28, 624 pages)

Novelist Orhan Pamuk was presented with this year?s Erdal Öz Literature Prize at a special ceremony Turkish Nobel laureate novelist Orhan Pamuk has been named the recipient of this year?s Erdal Öz Literary Prize, which is named after the late founder of the Can Publishing House and given to a writer who published a work in the last three years.

Centered on how the theme of 'saltwater' ties Istanbul together, ?KSV's 14th Istanbul Biennial will start this weekend at real and unreal venues across the city The 14th Istanbul Biennial, "SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms," will open to the public starting Sept. 5 in 30 venues around the city.

?A Useless Man: Selected Stories? by Sait Faik Abas?yan?k translated by Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe (Archipelago Books, 240 pages, $18)

Turkish Nobel laureate novelist Orhan Pamuk has been named the recipient of this year's Erdal Öz Literary Prize. The prize is named after the late founder of the Can Publishing House and given to a writer who published a work in the last three years.