"Pamuk's Politicized Prize
The Nobel Committee may honor lefty politics as much as it honors literature, but it's France, Turkey and the U.S. that really play politics with language.
October 14, 2006
'THERE IS NO SUCH THING,' George Orwell once said, 'as a genuinely nonpolitical literature.' That probably comes as news to millions of Danielle Steel fans. Still, if Orwell had only tacked on the word 'award' to his aphorism, that 1946 statement would have been as eerily prescient as his novel '1984.' "
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