Orhan Pamuk, on the eve of getting his Nobel Prize for literature, says he’s not interested in the larger cultural connections some want to impose on his work. Pamuk, author of “My Name is Red”, “Snow” and half-a-dozen other novels said he wanted to be considered above all as a writer and not as a bridge between Muslim and Western cultures. “Bridge builder? I don’t like it. I am not writing fiction to explain civilization. This is not my urge.”