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13/05/2005
Orhan Pamuk on £30,000 shortlist
Turkish author Orhan Pamuk has been shortlisted for a £30,000 literary prize for his book Istanbul: Memories Of A City.
Pamuk's personal memoir is one of six nominees for the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction.
Three first-time authors - Alexander Masters (Stuart: A Life Backwards), Suketu Mehta (Maximum City: A City Lost and Found) and Sarah Wise (The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s London) - have also made it on to the shortlist
The other nominees are Jonathan Coe's Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of BS Johnson and the second part of a Matisse biography by Hilary Spurling, Matisse The Master.
The Samuel Johnson Prize is the UK's most valuable non-fiction prize and the winner will be named on 14 June.
Bibliofemme review: Snow by Orhan Pamuk
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