Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006, becoming the first Turkish writer to receive this award. In addition to being a writer, he is Professor of Literature at Columbia University. He studied architecture at Istanbul Technical University and journalism at Istanbul University, but never pursued either of these professions. He lived in the US between 1985 and 1988, where he attended Columbia University in New York and also the University of Iowa for a short time. He currently lives in Istanbul, where he was born in 1952.

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