Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born on 7 June in Istanbul) generally known simply as Orhan Pamuk, is a Turkish novelist. He is also the Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he teaches comparative literature and writing. [1] One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, [2] his work has sold over seven million books in more than fifty languages, [3] making him the.