Orhan Pamuk

Roth is back on his beat

Last year's apparent swan-song was a false alarm, as proved by this stylish 1950s drama, writes Ronan Farren By Ronan Farren Sunday November 16 2008 IT IS less than a year since the redoubtable Philip Roth published Exit Ghost,...

ANKARA: Message Delivered To Obama's University

MESSAGE DELIVERED TO OBAMA'S UNIVERSITY Sabah Nov 14 2008 Turkey Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan spoke at a conference held at the university from which US President elect Obama Barack graduated, Columbia University in New York,...

Turkey's Hero, Behind The Bronze Veneer

TURKEY'S HERO, BEHIND THE BRONZE VENEER New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/world/europe/13ataturk.html?hp Nov 13 2008 ISTANBUL -- Portraits of a serious Ataturk hang all over Turkey, but a new film may alter his...

German honorary degree for Cees Nooteboom

by correspondent Laurens Boven* Cees Nooteboom is one of the Netherlands' greatest authors. So it is not surprising that Mr Nooteboom is the first Dutch writer to receive an honorary degree from a German university today: The...

EU Silent Despite Turkish Government's Transgressions

We have been trying for weeks to warn that selective criticisms leveled at Turkey by EU officials are disheartening pro-EU elements in Turkey. For example, the same officials who made negative remarks against the AKP over the...

147 authors fight it out for the Impac Dublin prize

In contention: Ian McEwan, author of On Chesil Beach. Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje was nominated by 13 libraries, just ahead of Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach, which received 10 nods. The longlist in full: A Curious Intimacy...

Holy court action! Can 'Dark Knight' beat Turkish mayor?

"The Dark Knight" has been the biggest grossing film worldwide of 2008 Batman, population 250,000, also shares its name with a province and a river Warner Bros, studio behind movie, says it is not aware of any court action...

Rushdie on Religion and the Imagination

Last Wednesday night, I had the chance to sit in on a fascinating conversation on “Religion and the Imagination” with Salman Rushdie. The author of Midnight’s Children, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories,...

Heyman Hop: Orhan Pamuk

Bwog Lecture Hopper David Berke attended tonight's Heyman lecture, starring Orhan Pamuk with Andreas Huyssen. Explaining his interest in long form fiction, Pamuk asserted that the novel "kills all other literary forms," a...

Italian author Saviano and Rushdie to lecture at Swedish Academy

Stockholm - Threatened Italian author Roberto Saviano and British-Indian author Salman Rushdie have accepted invitations to lecture at the Swedish Academy, the body that selects the Nobel literature prize said Tuesday. Saviano...

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