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I am proud to be a Turk, and to write in Turkish about Turkey - and to have been translated into about 40 languages. But I don't want to politicize things by dramatizing them.

Orhan Pamuk

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Orhan Pamuk
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 7
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