Orhan Pamuk

Nobel Prize winning author Orhan Pamuk reads from and discusses his latest novel The Red-Haired Woman, which interweaves an investigation into a murder thirty years ago in Istanbul and a fictional inquiry into the fundamental myths of the West and the East. From his many acclaimed books, including Snow, The White Castle, My Name is Red for which he received the 2003 International IMPAC Award, to A Strangeness in my Mind, which was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, Pamuk is one of the world’s most celebrated and formally inventive authors. In this immersive event combining imagery and extracts from his books, Pamuk reflects on reading and seeing, the tension between state and individual freedom, and chronicling the life of a city - Istanbul - in which civilisations continue to collide, and which has had such an influence on his writing.