Orhan Pamuk (Orhan Pamuk) has received the Nobel Prize in litterature.
This was not particularly surprising as he was one of the candidates most often mentioned this year - and previous years.
Horace Engdahl, the secretary of the Nobel committee, also admits that this is a well-known author and the surprise this year was that their choice did not surprise anyone! A lot of cheering! A political choise? According to the Nobel committee, it is not.
If we retrospectively look at the last ten years laureates though, we find authors who in their authorship clearly take a political stand, if not explicit: Harold Pinter, Elfriede Jelinek, J. M. Coetzee, Imre Kertész, V. S. Naipaul, Günter Grass among others.
This year it happens to coincide with France initiating a legislation against the denial of the genocide of Armenians in Turkey in 1915, an issue Pamuk openely has confronted the Turkish governement with.
Much more could be said but has already been said.
This was not particularly surprising as he was one of the candidates most often mentioned this year - and previous years.
Horace Engdahl, the secretary of the Nobel committee, also admits that this is a well-known author and the surprise this year was that their choice did not surprise anyone! A lot of cheering! A political choise? According to the Nobel committee, it is not.
If we retrospectively look at the last ten years laureates though, we find authors who in their authorship clearly take a political stand, if not explicit: Harold Pinter, Elfriede Jelinek, J. M. Coetzee, Imre Kertész, V. S. Naipaul, Günter Grass among others.
This year it happens to coincide with France initiating a legislation against the denial of the genocide of Armenians in Turkey in 1915, an issue Pamuk openely has confronted the Turkish governement with.
Much more could be said but has already been said.
(Photo Orhan Pamuk taken from: http://evan.vnexpress.net/News/Tin-tuc/the-gioi/2009/03/3B9AE3BE/pamuk_pressconf3_photo.jpg)
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