Orhan Pamuk is the author of many celebrated books of fiction, nonfiction, and photography. In 2003 he won the IMPAC prize for My Name is Red, and in 2006 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Victoria Rowe Holbrook is a graduate of Harvard and Princeton and a member of the Columbia University Society of Fellows. She has taught at Columbia, Ohio State as a tenured Associate Professor, Bosphorus, Koç, Bilkent, and most recently Istanbul Bilgi University. She is the author of The Unreadable Shores of Love: Turkish Modernity and Mystic Romance, articles bridging literature, philosophy, and religious thought, and several translations from Turkish and Persian, including Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk's The White Castle, Nurdan Gürbilek's The New Cultural Climate in Turkey: Living in a Shop Window, the Ottoman verse romance Beauty and Love by Galip, and a commentary on Rumi's Spiritual Couplets by Kenan Rifai She is working on a book about Platonism in the rest of the world.
