On May 6, an account on X impersonating Ingrid Carlberg, a member of the Swedish Academy, the institution that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature, announced that Orhan Pamuk was dead. “The Swedish Academy now receives from Istanbul the sad news of the sudden death of the writer Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Prize in Literature for 2006,” the account @CarlbergSvAkad, which had four posts and 68 followers, wrote on X. The account had been created in April, 2026. Within minutes, the announcement began spreading across the platform and beyond. Readers mourned the 73-year-old Turkish novelist whose books, including My Name Is Red , Snow and The Museum of Innocence , have been translated into dozens of languages and made him one of the most internationally read writers of his generation. Users reposted the claim, and at least one news outlet published the news. Pamuk, however, was alive and well. Hours later, the account admitted the deception.…