Orhan Pamuk has won the Nobel Prize in Literature
The NY Times article lede:
Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, whose uncommon lyrical gifts and uncompromising politics have brought him acclaim worldwide and prosecution at home, won the Nobel literature prize Thursday for his works dealing with the symbols of clashing cultures.
And the Swedish Academy:
in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city [Pamuk] has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures.
More thoughts coming soon...
1 comment:
I actually found more interesting that Jose Saramago won it too. His novels are awesome! It took sometime for the whoever literature judges to realize what an amazing job he's done. Just try Blindness or his latest satire abt death.
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