WRITER

Orhan Pamuk

1952 - Today

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Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born 7 June 1952; Turkish pronunciation: [feˈɾit oɾˈhan paˈmuk]) is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, he has sold over 13 million books in 63 languages, making him the country's best-selling writer. Pamuk's novels include Silent House, The White Castle, The Black Book, The New Life, My Name Is Red and Snow. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Orhan Pamuk has received more than 1,773,617 page views. His biography is available in 112 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 109 in 2019). Orhan Pamuk is the 170th most popular writer (up from 187th in 2019), the 73rd most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 84th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Turkish Writer.

Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist, poet, academic and journalist. He is best known for his novels The White Castle and My Name is Red.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 77.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 112

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 13.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Orhan Pamuk ranks 170 out of 7,302. Before him are Cyrano de Bergerac, Nicolas Flamel, Ivan Turgenev, H. G. Wells, Pindar, and Yasunari Kawabata. After him are Karel Čapek, Pliny the Younger, François-René de Chateaubriand, Wisława Szymborska, Taras Shevchenko, and Luigi Pirandello.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Orhan Pamuk ranks 5. Before him are Vladimir Putin, Patrick Swayze, Liam Neeson, and Harvey Weinstein. After him are Steven Seagal, Roberto Benigni, Vajiralongkorn, Park Geun-hye, Emomali Rahmon, Mickey Rourke, and Robert Zemeckis.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Orhan Pamuk ranks 73 out of 1,347. Before him are Anaximenes of Miletus (-585), Şehzade Mehmed (1522), Mustafa III (1717), Lucian (120), Hipparchus (-190), and Herostratus (-301). After him are Aristotle Onassis (1906), Murad V (1840), Honorius (384), Alexios I Komnenos (1048), Constantine VII (905), and Ertuğrul (1198).

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Among WRITERS In Türkiye

Among writers born in Türkiye, Orhan Pamuk ranks 3. Before him are Hesiod (-800), and Lucian (120). After him are Constantine VII (905), Anacreon (-570), Anna Komnene (1083), Dionysius of Halicarnassus (-60), Yunus Emre (1240), Ammianus Marcellinus (330), Giorgos Seferis (1900), Aratus (-315), and Theodore the Studite (759).

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