Turkey emerged from World War II as an ally to the Western powers, and in the 1950s, a sweeping modernization, a booming economy, and a rising democracy party inspired a change in the country's identity as an Islamic, Arabic-world-allied state. Pamuk's mother came from a textile-manufacturing dynasty as a result, her family was part of the new, middle-class elite. Pamuk's father, a civil engineer by training, inherited his father's railroad company, but he and his brothers mismanaged the business, and their inheritance vanished in unwise real estate investments. He grew up in a family that began wealthy but lost much of its fortune by the time Pamuk reached adulthood. Wealthy Beginnings and Western Influence Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1952. I care about writing.” Works in Biographical and Historical Context About his career, Pamuk has asserted, “I think less than people think I do about politics. He is an author shadowed by controversy and censorship, yet he has earned more than fifteen esteemed literary awards for works that have been translated into more than fifty languages. Novelist Orhan Pamuk is the first Nobel laureate in literature from Turkey.
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