"A Test Case for the European Union? - The Trial of Orhan Pamuk (1) PDF
Written by Dr Harry Hagopian
Monday, 02 January 2006
The trial of Orhan Pamuk had barely started in Istanbul, Turkey, on 16 December 2005, when the presiding judge adjourned the proceedings until 7 February 2006.
Few are the media-savvy and news-conscious Europeans across much of the Union who will not have heard of Orhan Pamuk. An internationally renowned author of bestselling novels such as My Name is Red (winner of the IMPAC Literary Award in 2003), Snow and more recently Istanbul, the 53-year-old Pamuk was also a short-list candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature."
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