Carcanet was delighted to hear that the Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk was awarded the Nobel prize for Literature 2006 on Friday.

Carcanet was Orhan Pamuk's first publisher in English, both in the UK and the United States, with The White Castle (1990), translated by Victoria Holbrook. This is widely considered to be Pamuk's most accessible novel.

This is Carcanet's fifth association with the Nobel Prize: Carcanet published Jose Saramago's first novel, The Book of Painting and Calligraphy, in English (Nobel prize 1998). Four major books by Octavio Paz (Nobel prize 1990) were also published by Carcanet (the editorial director having translated one of the volumes, On Poets and Others). Carcanet also published five books by Czelaw Milosz (Nobel Prize 1980), and the Essays and Collected Poems of Eugenio Montale (Nobel Prize 1975).