Author best known for his postmodern and metafictional fiction. His most highly regarded and influential works were published in the 1960s, and include The Sot-Weed Factor, a satirical retelling of Maryland's colonial history, and Lost in the Funhouse
Turkish Author, Nobel Prize Winner for Literature. 'First Muslem writer to defend Salman Rushdie' Wrote 'The White Castle', 'The Black Book' & 'My Name is Red'.