Amazon Best Books of the Month, November 2009: The story of Kemal, the half-hearted industrialist who is the hero of The Museum of Innocence, Orhan Pamuk's first novel since he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, is a deeply private one, built around an often inexplicable obsession that he attempts to justify to the reader. In honor of Füsun, the poor, beautiful cousin he had a short affair with when he was 30 and engaged to another, he has hoarded a museum of relics, both of their time together and of the much longer time when, like Gatsby drawn by the green light on Daisy's dock, he hovered at the edge of her life, held in check (but yet held nearby) by the proprieties of Turkish society. From Kemal's passion Pamuk constructs a masterful meditation on time, desire, and possession, saturated with the details of the city of Pamuk's youth: the brand names, the film stars, the streets, the intricate social relations between classes and between modernity and tradition. It's as if the museum of the title was built in honor not of Füsun but of Istanbul, circa 1975. --Tom Nissley

From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. Nobel laureate Pamuk's latest is a soaring, detailed and laborious mausoleum of love. During Istanbul's tumultuous 1970s, Kemal Bey, 30-year-old son of an upper-class family, walks readers through a lengthy catalogue of trivial objects, which, though seeming mundane, hold memories of his life's most intimate, irretrievable moments. The main focus of Kemal's peculiar collection of earrings, ticket stubs and drinking glasses is beloved Füsun, his onetime paramour and longtime unrequited love. An 18-year-old virginal beauty, modest shopgirl and poor distant relation, Füsun enters Kemal's successful life just as he is engaged to Sibel, a very special, very charming, very lovely girl. Though levelheaded Sibel provides Kemal compassionate relief from their social strata's rising tensions, it is the fleeting moments with fiery, childlike Füsun that grant conflicted Kemal his deepest peace. The poignant truth behind Kemal's obsession is that his museum provides a closeness with Füsun he'll never regain. Though its incantatory middle suffers from too many indistinguishable quotidian encounters, this is a masterful work. (Oct.)

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土耳其作傢奧爾罕·帕慕剋是享譽國際的土耳其文壇巨擘。1952年齣生於伊斯坦堡，在伊斯坦布爾科技大學主修建築。

1979年第一部作品《塞夫得特州長和他的兒子們》得到《土而其日報》小說首奬，並在1982年齣版，1983年再度贏得奧爾罕·凱馬爾小說奬。

1983年齣版第二本小說《寂靜的房子》，並於1991年獲得得到歐洲發現奬，同年齣版法文版。

1985年齣版第一本曆史小說《白色城堡》，這本小說讓他享譽全球，紐約時報書評稱他：“一位新星正在東方誕生——土耳其作傢奧爾罕.帕慕剋。”這本書榮獲1990年美國外國小說獨立奬。

1990年齣版《黑書》是一個裏程碑，這本小說讓他在土耳其文學圈備受爭議的同時也廣受一般讀者喜愛。法文版獲得瞭法蘭西文化奬。1992年他以這本小說為藍本，完成《隱蔽的臉》的電影劇本。

1997年《新人生》一書的齣版在土耳其造成轟動，成為土耳其曆史上銷售速度最快的書籍。

1998年《我的名字叫紅》齣版，這本書確定瞭他在國際文壇上的的文學地位；獲得2003年都柏林文學奬，這個奬奬金高達10萬歐元，是全世界奬金最高的文學奬，同時還贏得瞭法國文藝奬和意大利格林紮納.卡佛文學奬。

2002年作者發錶小說《雪》，獲得暢銷，並選入2004年的《紐約時報書評》“年度好書”。此書成為作者四年後獲得諾貝爾文學奬的重要砝碼。

2005年作者憑新作《伊斯坦布爾》獲諾貝爾文學奬提名，據傳僅以微弱劣勢輸給瞭英國著名劇作傢哈羅德.品特。同年獲得德國書業和平奬。

2006年10月12日戰勝奪標呼聲頗高的敘利亞詩人阿杜尼斯、美國小說傢菲利普.羅斯、卡羅爾.奧茨、以色列小說傢阿莫司.奧茲、韓國詩人高銀以及加拿大女作傢瑪格麗特.阿特伍德等人，獲得本年度諾貝爾文學奬。獲奬理由是“在尋找故鄉的憂鬱靈魂時，發現瞭文化碰撞和融閤中的新象徵”。

他的作品已被譯成40多種語言齣版。文學評論傢把他和普魯斯特、托馬斯·曼、卡爾維諾、博爾赫斯、安伯托·艾柯等大師相提並論。