Erdağ Göknar is associate professor of Turkish studies at Duke. He is the award-winning English translator of Orhan Pamuk’s novel My Name Is Red (Knopf, 2001), the author of Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy: The Politics of the Turkish Novel (Routledge, 2013), and the co-editor of Conversations with Orhan Pamuk (University Press of Mississippi, 2024).
Erdağ Göknar
Articles
Itineraries of Affect
Erdağ Göknar reviews Orhan Pamuk’s “Memories of Distant Mountains: Illustrated Notebooks, 2009–2022.”
Plagues and Painting with Words: Glimpses of Orhan Pamuk’s Writing Process
Erdağ Göknar discusses Orhan Pamuk’s writing notebooks and how they illuminate his new novel “Nights of Plague.”
The Light of the Bosphorus: Orhan Pamuk’s Photography in “Balkon”
In "Balkon," Pamuk relies on photography to provide context as well as archival evidence. The photographs become part of the process of writing.
A Turkish Woman in the Oedipus Complex: Orhan Pamuk’s “The Red-Haired Woman”
Erdağ Göknar reviews Orhan Pamuk's latest.
A Nomad Between Worlds
Erdağ Göknar discusses Mohed Altrad’s “Badawi” and the complexity of tradition versus modernity in the Middle East and Europe.
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