Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Prize Winner for Literature in 2006, has a new title in the library which is an outstanding collection. Other Colors is a wide-ranging group of essays plus one story. If you are interested in understanding the writer's vocation and why Pamuk became a writer there are several essays about this topic. There are also several essays of a personal nature which are quite moving. My Father is a very beautiful tribute to his father and an estimate of what his father meant to his life. If you want to understand the trials of modern Turkey he again has several essays which will open your eyes to these problems. Remember that his discussion of the Armenian genocide by the Turks almost drew him a trial and a long prison term. He is indeed a brave writer deserving of the Nobel Prize.