Faber to publish Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk's illustrated notebooks

Faber is set to to publish Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk’s illustrated notebooks translated into English for the first time. Publisher Alex Bowler acquired UK and Commonwealth (excluding Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh) from Sarah Chalfant at The Wylie Agency. The collection with be released on 21st November.

Every day for more than a decade, Pamuk has written and drawn in his notebooks. Translated into English for the first time, they include daily events and reflections, dialogues with his imagined characters, notes on his works-in-progress, his experience of writer’s block and the unfolding of his difficulties with the current Turkish government.

Bowler said: "These sumptuous pages lift the veil on the creative processes of one of the world’s great literary imaginations. They are playful, they are intimate and, to any reader fascinated by the creative mind, they will prove very precious indeed."

Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. His novel My Name Is Red won the 2003 International Impac Dublin Literary Award. His work has been translated into more than 60 languages. He lives in Istanbul.