Erdag Goknar is an assistant professor at Duke University who translated one of Pamuk's novels into English.
EU's commissioner for enlargement met Orhan Pamuk, a Turkish novelist, to discuss Turkey's record on free speech.
Mr Pamuk plans to open his own Museum of Innocence next year in Cukurcuma, an Istanbul antiques quarter.
And there's a heated debate this year, according to international newspapers, over whether to honor Turkish author Orhan Pamuk.
Kemal slowly finds that his centre was by Fusun's side, rather as Mr Pamuk's fiction has recentred the world on his home city.
By the leading interpreter of Turkish society to the western world, it deals with such familiar Pamuk themes as faith, identity and betrayal.
The question has consumed the country since Orhan Pamuk became the first Turk to win the Nobel prize for literature (or indeed any Nobel).
Kemal's tale is told over raki to Mr Pamuk, who breaks cover to reveal his authorship (having also danced awkwardly with Fusun at Kemal's engagement party).
Pamuk's love story is about upper-class Turks in the '70s caught between their Western lifestyles and a culture that they rule but to which they do not entirely belong.
Ascribing to him the Byzantine wiles displayed by some of his characters, Mr Pamuk's enemies are now saying that he engineered his own trial so as to win the Nobel.
Mr Pamuk had also been in the running for the Nobel prize for literature , which was won by Harold Pinter, a British playwright and critic of the war in Iraq.
Sense of the City can be heard on the BBC World Service programme The World Today until Friday 8 August, and includes Orhan Pamuk talking about Istanbul, Romesh Gunesekera on Colombo, and Zadie Smith looking at London.
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