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Orhan Pamuk’s ‘Silent House’ is among 16 novels on the long list.

Orhan Pamuk’s ‘Silent House’ is among 16 novels on the long list.

The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, which honors the best work of fiction by a living author translated into English from any other language and published in the United Kingdom, has announced its long-list.

Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk’s “Silent House” is featured on the list alongside 15 other works of fiction. Pamuk previously won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 1990 for his novel “The White Castle.”

Turkish author Elif Şafak is among the selection committee who will announce the short-list on April 11. The award will be presented to the winner in May.

The other works of fiction featured on the long-list are as follows:

Gerbrand Bakker’s “Ten White Geese,” Chris Barnard’s “Bundu,” Laurent Binet’s “HHhH,” Dasa Drndic’s “Trieste,” Pawel Huelle’s “Cold Sea Stories,” Pia Juul’s “Murder of Halland,” Ismail Kadare’s “The Fall of the Stone City,” Khaled Khalifa’s “In Praise of Hatred,” Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “A Death in the Family,” Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s “Satantango,” Alain Mabanckou’s “Black Bazaar,” Diego Marani’s “The Last of the Vostyachs,” Andrés Neuman’s “Traveler of the Century,” Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s “The Sound of Things Falling” and Enrique Vila-Matas’s “Dublinesque.”

March/05/2013

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Tekin Beyoglu

3/23/2013 1:47:50 PM

Please don't speak on behalf of everyone else. Pamuk is not a politician, he's a novelist. I bet all those who criticize him blindly for his political remarks haven't read one single book by him. He's one of the most sincere and talented writers of post-modernist literature. Nationalists must stay away. Turkey has never benefited from you close-minded self-appointed defenders of nation.

cezer skonore

3/5/2013 5:06:03 PM

Orhan Pamuk has violated the cardinal rule of Turkish-Islamic nationalism by talking about the history without sugarcoating it.

Murat

3/5/2013 3:58:26 PM

Do not speak for the rest of us. He is a real deal.

Baris

3/5/2013 3:49:33 PM

You can say Orhan Pamuk has no credence for you, Turk Oz, but you are not a spokesman for the Turks. I am a Turk and I am proud of Orhan Pamuk, as many other Turks are. What is shameful is the way he was treated in his own country, Turkey. I hope he wins the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize

Jack Manougian

3/5/2013 2:30:45 PM

Yup, he has always spoken the truth. Turks should get rid of the chip on their shoulder of everyone betraying them.

Levent OfCeramorium

3/5/2013 2:28:57 PM

This man is so very overrated. Not into conspiracies that much. But this definitely smells fishy.

turk oz

3/5/2013 6:32:33 AM

Orhan Pamuk has no credence to me and the Turks. He had betrayed Turkey and its people. He should be ashamed for what he did the country of the TURKEY. We do not forget. Shame on him.
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