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奥尔罕帕慕克跨越东西方桥梁 　　在2006年诺贝尔文学奖公布以前，帕慕克这个名字对于中国读者来说也许还十分陌生。其实此时的他已经是享誉国际的作家，被认为是欧洲当代最杰出的小说家之一。从去年起，这位土耳其文坛巨擘的作品被陆续介绍到中国，并在国内掀起了一股读书热潮，延续至今。以下是帕慕克获诺贝尔奖前的一篇采访记。通过这篇文章，我们不难发现东西方文明给这位作家的人生及其作品留下的不可磨灭的印记。 　　 　　Who knew George W. Bush had a taste for Turkish 1)literature? Yet, there he was in Istanbul, quoting Turkey’s most famous novelist, Orhan Pamuk. 　　Sitting in a Greek restaurant near Carnegie Hall注1, Pamuk recalls the Bush 2)reference. “Those who prepared his speech thought it would give a bit of 3)glamour to a writer-suspect though the glamour may be!” 　　Glamour, at least the literary kind, is something Pamuk already 4)possessed. He has been translated into 35 languages. His sixth novel, My Name Is Red, won the world’s richest book prize, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award注2, in 2003. It’s become 5)commonplace to speak of when, not if, he will win the Nobel Prize. 　　What makes Pamuk 6)unique is his ability to serve as a literary bridge between East and West. 　　“There must be many good writers in many, many places whose work doesn’t easily translate, because it is so 7)specific to the place,”says Ian Jack, editor of the literary 8)quarterly Granta. “Orhan is, for some reason or other, 9)accessible to us.” 　　Pamuk’s homeland 10)straddles Europe and Asia, something he considers valuable both to him and to it. “Turkey is made in such a way that the country’s culture is also made of two spirits,”Pamuk says, “not 11)essentially fighting with each other, but trying to find ways of 12)combining. In that sense, I’m slightly 13)schizophrenic-slightly.” 　　Pamuk has a great laugh that 14)gallops all over his conversation. He is eager and funny, and intellectually 15)vibrant. 　　“I talk and talk too much,?Pamuk says with a frown. It’s true, though, he does talk a lot but that’s also how he writes. “Oh, I’m a hard-working, 16)obsessive type,”he says. “I go to my office. Then I stay there 10 hours. I’m working all the time. I have no holidays. Book tours? Ha! These are my holidays.”