The court initially declined to hear the case, but in 2011 Pamuk was ordered to pay 6,000 liras in compensation for having insulted the plaintiffs' honor. Pamuk said his intention had been to highlight issues of freedom of speech in Turkey.

In 2005, a lawyer sued him over a statement about the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire. Pamuk's willingness to write books about contentious historical and political events put him at risk of censure in his homeland. The European Writers' Parliament came about as a result of a joint proposal by Pamuk and José Saramago. My Name Is Red won the 2002 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, 2002 Premio Grinzane Cavour and 2003 International Dublin Literary Award. He is also the recipient of numerous other literary awards. Of partial Circassian descent and born in Istanbul, Pamuk is the first Turkish Nobel laureate. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018. He is the Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he teaches writing and comparative literature. Pamuk's novels include Silent House, The White Castle, The Black Book, The New Life, My Name Is Red, Snow, The Museum of Innocence, A Strangeness in My Mind and The Red-Haired Woman. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, he has sold over 13 million books in 63 languages, making him the country's best-selling writer. Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born 7 June 1952 Turkish pronunciation: ) is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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