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Currently, Orhan Pamuk is 72 years, 5 months and 15 days old. Orhan Pamuk will celebrate 73rd birthday on a Saturday 7th of June 2025. Below we countdown to Orhan Pamuk upcoming birthday.
| Popular As | Orhan Pamuk |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Age | 72 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Gemini |
| Born | June 7, 1952 (Istanbul, Turkey) |
| Birthday | June 7 |
| Town/City | Istanbul, Turkey |
| Nationality | Turkey |
Orhan Pamuk’s zodiac sign is Gemini. According to astrologers, Gemini is expressive and quick-witted, it represents two different personalities in one and you will never be sure which one you will face. They are sociable, communicative and ready for fun, with a tendency to suddenly get serious, thoughtful and restless. They are fascinated with the world itself, extremely curious, with a constant feeling that there is not enough time to experience everything they want to see.
Orhan Pamuk was born in the Year of the Dragon. A powerful sign, those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dragon are energetic and warm-hearted, charismatic, lucky at love and egotistic. They’re natural born leaders, good at giving orders and doing what’s necessary to remain on top. Compatible with Monkey and Rat.
One of Turkey's most acclaimed Writers, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006 and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger in 2002. His best-known works include The White Castle, The Museum of Innocence, and My Name is Red.
He wrote his first novel in 1979, three years after graduating from the University of Istanbul.
His novel, The Black Book, and his memoir, Istanbul, both reference his childhood in a once-wealthy but increasingly less affluent family.
He divorced Aylin Turegun in 2011. A year earlier, he had started a relationship with Kiran Desai.
He became a Nobel laureate in Literature a year after Harold Pinter received the same honor.
