"Self-Portrait, Assembled, by a Son of Istanbul
By WILLIAM GRIMES
Published: October 5, 2007
Taken together, the scattered essays and sketches that make up “Other Colors” can be read as a loose sort of autobiography, Orhan Pamuk writes in his preface. A stray remark here, a detail there, and something like a life emerges. We learn that Mr. Pamuk, Turkey’s most eminent novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006, dreamed of being a painter for most of his childhood and youth; studied architecture but abandoned the pursuit after three years; was once a leftist; writes very slowly; lived in New York for three years; and after the great Istanbul earthquake of 1999, constructed a shelter made of books under his desk."
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