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Nobel prize for literature 2006

December 2007

  • Between two worlds

    A life in writing: Last year's Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk has faced criminal charges and even death threats in his native Turkey, yet he refuses to be disillusioned about the country's future

February 2007

  • Voices of protest
    Pamuk believed to be in exile in US

    The Turkish author Orhan Pamuk has reportedly left his home country to live in America amid fears for his life. The Nobel laureate is believed to be at risk of assassination in Turkey following the murder of Turkish-Armenian editor Hrant Dink last month. Threats appeared to have been made against Pamuk by the man who confessed to orchestrating the murder.

January 2007

  • Pamuk cancels Germany visit amid safety fears

    Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk has cancelled a publicity tour of Germany amid fears for his safety following the murder of Turkish-Armenian editor Hrant Dink.

October 2006

  • Pamuk's Nobel is a family affair

    Elif Shafak
  • Robert McCrum

    This noble winner should get the Peace Prize, too

    Robert McCrum
  • Pamuk's Nobel divides Turkey

  • A Nobel winner for our times

  • Nobel prize for hero of liberal Turkey stokes fears of nationalist backlash

  • Orhan Pamuk wins Nobel prize

August 2006

  • In praise of ... the Nobel prize in literature

    Leader
    Leader: Naguib Mahfouz, the great Egyptian novelist who died yesterday, would in all likelihood have been largely unread outside his own country and language had it not been for a single act: the 1988 decision by the Swedish Academy to award the Nobel prize in literature to the author of Children of Gebelawi.
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