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Friday, November 28, 2008

Yasar Kemal's disappearing world of stories | Books | guardian.co.uk

"Yasar Kemal's disappearing world of stories
Nicholas Birch is spellbound by an afternoon with Turkey's master novelist

"I've never a met a journalist who asks fewer questions," Ayse Baban says as she brings her husband more tea. "Let the boy speak, Yasar."

The man many Turks used to assume would be the country's first Nobel prize winner, Yasar Kemal is 85 this year, negotiating his cluttered sitting room with the cautious steps of someone getting used to physical frailty. "

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