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This week, Eleanor speaks with Turkish Nobel Prize-winning writer Orhan Pamuk. His new novel, A Strangeness in My Mind, covers forty years in the life of the city and an Istanbul street vendor.

"Writing in the World of Islam," Pt. 4, with Orhan Pamuk. Orhan Pamuk (b. 1952 in Istanbul) is Turkey's bestselling novelist, with a dazzling reputation abroad. He deftly combines religious and historical themes with Western postmodernism. Pamuk has rejected the title of state artist in Turkey, where he is something of a publishing phenomenon. His latest book, My Name is Red, recently had a rave review in The New Yorker by John Updike.

Illustration of Mu'azzin leading call to prayer