Cihangir’s most
famous resident, novelist and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk made the neighbourhood
his home after spending his childhood in Nisantasi.
His Museum of Innocence,
which he established in 2012, displays the real-life artefacts collected by the
protagonist and narrator of his 2008 novel of the same name and, in this way,
traces the love story of the novel's central characters.
The eventual aim of
the collection is to grow into an exhibit of everyday life in Istanbul in the
second half of the 20th century.
The Orhan Kemal Museum celebrates another
famous literary figure Orhan Kemal, at No 30 Akarsu Caddesi.
He was most
known for his realist novels telling the stories of the poor and disadvantaged
in early 20th-century Turkey.
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