Pamuk's favourite Istanbuli writers, who meant inspiration for him and also became figures of his book, are Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, Reşat Ekrem Koçu, Abdülhak Şinasi Hisar, Ahmet Rasim and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar.
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar | Yaser Esam Hamdi | Ahmet Hakan Coşkun | Ahmet Burak Erdoğan | Ahmet Zappa | Ahmet Kurt Pasha | Ahmet Davutoğlu | Şehzade Ahmet | Osman Hamdi Bey | Ahmet Yumrukaya | Ahmet Şık | Ahmet Robenson | Ahmet Özal | Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar's | Ahmet Cömert Sport Hall |
In 2008 Göknar translated famous modernist Turkish author Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar's iconic novel A Mind at Peace (Archipelago, 2008), which was supported by a translation grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.