Orhan Pamuk is the author of many celebrated books, including The White Castle, Istanbul, Snow, A Strangeness in My Mind and Nights of Plague. In 2003 he won the International IMPAC Award for My Name Is Red, and in 2006 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Museum of Innocence was an international bestseller, praised in the Guardian as 'an enthralling, immensely enjoyable piece of storytelling'. Orhan Pamuk lives in Istanbul.
Maureen Freely is an author, translator and teacher. She has written seven novels - including Sailing Through Byzantium, Enlightenment and The Other Rebecca. Also well known as a translator of the Turkish Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk, she has brought into English several classics and works by Turkey's rising literary stars. For many years she worked as a journalist in London, writing about literature, social justice, and human rights. As chair of the Translator's Association and more recently as President and Chair of English PEN, she has campaigned for writers and freedom of expression internationally. She teaches at the University of Warwick.
