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Istanbul: Memories and the City (İstanbul: Hatıralar ve Şehir) is a largely autobiographical memoir by Orhan Pamuk that is deeply melancholic. It talks about the vast cultural change that has rocked Turkey – the unending battle between the modern and the receding past. It is also a eulogy to the lost joint family tradition.
The museum and the novel were created in tandem, centred on the stories of two Istanbul families. On 17 May 2014, the museum was announced as the winner of the 2014 European Museum of the Year Award. [1] The narrative and the museum offer a glimpse into upper-class Istanbul life from the 1970s to the early 2000s. [2]
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Ara Güler (Armenian: Արա Կիւլէր; 16 August 1928 – 17 October 2018) was a Turkish photojournalist of Armenian descent, nicknamed "the Eye of Istanbul" or "the Photographer of Istanbul". [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He was "one of Turkey's few internationally known photographers".
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Orhan Pamuk has called De Amicis's work the best book written about Istanbul in the nineteenth century, [1] [4] while Umberto Eco stated that De Amicis' description of the city was the most cinematic, [5] and himself used the guide when visiting Constantinople. [1] Jason Goodwin has described the work as a real Victorian tour de force. [4]
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Reşad Ekrem Koçu (1905 – July 6, 1975) was a Turkish writer and historian. His best known work is the unfinished Istanbul Encyclopedia (İstanbul Ansiklopedisi), which recounts many tales of Istanbul from Ottoman times.