Turkish literature has been thrust into an embarrassing situation as its greatest living writer has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (that’s the big one).
Orhan Pamuk had only recently been acquitted on charges of denigrating the Turkish nation. Pamuk raised questions about Turkey’s massacre of more than a million Armenians in 1915. To talk of the Armenian genocide is considered treason, and so, outside of Istanbul’s liberal intelligentsia, Pamuk is considered a traitor.
The award, bestowed on Turkey’ highest profile novelist and intellectual, will be rued more than it is celebrated.
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