![]() Neither is the novel an explanation of the museum. “The Museum of Innocence is not an illustration of ‘The Museum of Innocence’ the novel. ![]() He is the founder, financier, curator and artistic director, although he worked with museum specialists from Turkey and Germany, including architect Gregor Sunder-Plassmann. The museum’s opening was delayed in large part because Pamuk has overseen every detail himself, even taking a hiatus from novel-writing for about six months last year. However, his original goal of launching a museum at the same time proved too ambitious. It has been translated into nearly 60 other languages. The Turkish author, 59, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006, published the best-selling “ The Museum of Innocence” in Turkish in 2008 and in English the following year. ![]() ![]() I conceived of the book and the museum together,” Pamuk said. “The idea came to me almost 15 years ago to set an imaginary story in a real house in Istanbul. ISTANBUL - Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence, which opened here last weekend, is an unprecedented project for a writer: the first museum in the world based on an eponymous work of fiction. ![]()
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