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Turkey
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The reader ranking includes the Turkish-American economist Daron Acemoglu, and this page also lists books whose story is set in Turkey. Madeline Miller’s “The Song of Achilles” (2011) and Christa Wolf’s “Cassandra” (1983) return to Troy, whose ruins lie at Hisarlık in present-day Turkey, and much of Ian Fleming’s “From Russia, with Love” (1957) takes place in Istanbul. Orhan Pamuk, born in Istanbul, received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006.
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An author's country is their citizenship in Wikidata or, where none is recorded, the country they were born in; a story's setting comes from Wikidata too. Obvious errors and gaps are corrected by hand. Authors are ordered by the number of reader ratings. Country shapes: Natural Earth.