Orhan Pamuk wins Nobel literature prize

Orhan Pamuk, the Turkish novelist known for his free speech struggles with the Turkish government, has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. While the choice is in line with many of the Nobel committee’s recent winners (the past two years’ literary prizes have gone to writers who were also conflict in their own governments), Academy head Horace Engdahl said Pamuk was selected not for political reasons, but because he had “enlarged the roots of the contemporary novel” through his links to both Western and Eastern culture.

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