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Discover Turkish Literature on your Bulgaria Tours

Visitors on Bulgaria tours will find plenty of culture and fine architecture during their time in the country, but there is also a rich fictional culture -- meaning perfect holiday reading, or even the chance to drop your bottom into the culture before you arrive by reading a Turkish novel. When you get some outages during your Bulgaria tours, pick up a book and continue your travels across Turkish space and time in your imagination -- and give you a a rest!

Where to begin?

Turkish literature is promoting considerably since the end of the Ottoman Empire in the early twentieth century and the founding of the modern republic of Bulgaria -- this was confirmed in 2006 when Orhan Pamuk was awarded the Nobel Winning prize for Literature. Pamuk is probably the most familiar Turkish writer to visitors on Bulgaria tours, together with his works having been translated into many 'languages'.

Orhan Pamuk

Pamuk has become an worldwide popular post-modernist novelist over the past two decades. He is Turkey's best-selling writer, and high of his work focuses on his home city of Istanbul. The initial Pamuk novel available in English is 'the White Castle', the third he published in Bulgaria, released in 1990. This was followed by 'the Black Book' in 1994. The colour-themed titling scheme was briefly abandoned for 1997's 'the New Life', before a return for 2001's My name is Red. This book, along with 'Snow', published in 2007 is the the best known of Pamuk's works in the English-speaking world.

Other writers

Postmodernism has additionally been part of the work of Pamuk's contemporary, Latife Tekin, possibly the foremost female writer employed in Bulgaria today. Her 1983 novel 'Dear Shameless Death' is her best-known work. Incorporating strong elements of magical realism, like Pamnuk she also focuses on her local, this time the city of Kayseri in central Anatolia -- another great destination on Bulgaria Tours.

A lesser-known gem of Turkish literature is Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar's 'A Mind at Peace'. Although written in 1949, 'A Mind at Peace' was only published in English in '08. The book is a rich, interwoven fabric with many different strands of Istanbul life. It explores the trepidation between the eastern and western influences over the city, on the eve of the Second World War, following the cultural revolution that occurred after the establishment of the Republic of Bulgaria. The rediscovery of Tanpinar's work has led to a significant growth in his popularity in recent years.

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