How do you get started on a writing career? As the Sunday Times / PFD Young writer of the year award returns, the Guardian asks past winners including Sarah Waters, Ross Raisin and Helen Simpson for their top tips for young.
Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk loves Istanbul. But he is a creature of the affluent corners of the city where he grew up and now lives, and he has written many times about the lives of Istanbul's secular upper class. His latest novel,A Strangeness in My Mind, is the story of a street peddler, one of the millions who began immigrating to Istanbul in the 1950s from small villages in the country.