Memories of Distant Mountains

Orhan Pamuk is the author of twelve novels, the memoir Istanbul (Vintage, 2006), three works of nonfiction, and two photography books. He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Europe’s most prominent novelists, his work has been translated into more than sixty languages.

Merve Emre is the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University and the director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism. Her books include Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America (Chicago UP, 2017), The Personality Brokers (Doubleday, 2018), which was selected as one...