It’s going to be a fascinating month and I hope you’ll join us. It would take too long to list Pamuk’s other prizes and achievements, but you should certainly also know that he won the Nobel prize for literature in 2006.įinally, just to add to the good news, Snow was translated into English by Maureen Freely, the renowned translator, novelist and occasional Guardian contributor. While we’re still with the New York Times, it’s also worth noting that the Old Grey Lady named Snow one of its books of the year in 2004 (when it was first published in English, following its 2002 release in Turkey), and it won the 2005 Prix Médicis. Pamuk is a wonderful storyteller, and someone who is always playing with the form of the novel: “The twists of fate, the plots that double back on themselves, the trickiness, the mysteries that recede as they’re approached, the bleak cities, the night prowling, the sense of identity loss, the protagonist in exile – these are vintage Pamuk.” When she reviewed the book in the New York Times, Margaret Atwood called Snow “not only an engrossing feat of tale-spinning, but essential reading for our times”.Ītwood stressed that this book is a serious artistic achievement. Pamuk’s follow-up to the astonishing My Name Is Red deals with the conflict between a secular state and Islamic government, the perpetually vexed questions around the wearing of headscarves, and questions of truth and faith and belonging. But this novel also offers more than meteorological weather.
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