Translated to Arabic, 'Benim adım Kırmızı.' (My Name is Red, 1998) by Nobel laureate Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk (b. 1952). At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, 'My Name Is Red' is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent contemporary Turkish writers.