Criticized by officials in his native country for defaming the culture of Turkey, writer Orhan Pamuk has been awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature. Story from NY Times, BBC and an Boston Globe, and Update: 10/12 22:20 GMT B an in-depth article from Hillel Italie of the AP.
The Nobel award coincidentally ties in with the authors claims and the law just passed by the French Government punishing anyone denying that the killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915 amounted to genocide.
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