Orhan Pamuk: 'The novel is not dead'

Turkey’s Nobel laureate explains how he set out to write an epic of Istanbul in his latest novel, A Strangeness in My Mind – and why he’s confident the novel will survive in the age of box sets

The development of the novel is inextricably connected with the growth of modern cities, said Turkish Nobel laureate at a Guardian Live event to discuss his latest novel A Strangeness in My Mind.

Cities give rise to novels, and novels in turn mythologise and further the growth of cities, he said, explaining why his own work returns again and again to Istanbul, the city of his birth, as both the primary location of, and inspiration for, his fiction.

A novel works best if you rewrite it and rewrite it and rewrite it

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