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Portrait image of Orhan Pamuk Photo: Bengt Gustafsson / Forflex

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Pamuk, Orhan

Turkish author, born and grew up in Istanbul, Nisantasi, in an affluent middle-class family. The father was a civil engineer, as was Orhan’s grandfather, who laid the foundations for the family’s fortune. After graduating from school – the secular American Robert College – Pamuk studied Architecture and Journalism. Until he was 22, he devoted himself to painting and dreamt of becoming an artist. T...

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Portrait image of Linwood Barclay Photo: Dan Harasymchuk --- CC BY-SA 4.0

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Barclay, Linwood

Canadian-American author, born in Darien, Connecticut in the USA. Just before his fourth birthday, the family moved to Toronto in Canada. Linwood Barclay’s father was an illustrator and graphic artist mainly for the car industry but when this to an increasing degree started using photographs, in 1966 – following the advice of his wife – he bought a camping site with a small cabin village in Bobca...

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