I’m curious because it tells a lot about a nation’s social policies, i.e., how robust is the welfare state. Folks, I’m told it’s all too much work, too archaic and fogey way of doing things; Instagram is the way forward. But I’m also talking Oguz Atay, Yasar Kemal, Sabahattin Ali, whose book Madonna in Fur Coat has dominated Turkish lists, outselling Pamuk in recent times. Nazim Hikmet remains a popular choice for poetry, as does Orhan Veli who along with Oktay Rifat and Melih Cevdet revolutionized Turkish poetry with the famous Garip movement. Pamuk had his fair share of trouble with the Turkish nationalists—one even going as far as filing a court case against him.

Source: Dhaka Tribune January 12, 2019 14:03 UTC