Turkish author scoops €100,000 prize

A TURKISH writer won the world’s richest literary prize yesterday for a Byzantine whodunnit set in 16th century Istanbul.

Orhan Pamuk’s murder mystery novel, My Name is Red, beat off stiff competition from other established writers and won its author the coveted International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award worth €100,000.

Mr Pamuk beat seven other finalists including Ireland’s John McGahern whose book, That They May Face The Rising Sun, had been tipped to take the prize.