Orhan Pamuk
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, three-time Turkish prime minister in 2011
A faltering EU bid, separatist threats from the Kurdish minority and rumours of a presidential strategy. Ahmet Insel, a political scientist, liberal economist, editor of Orhan Pamuk and professor at Paris and Istanbul, spoke to cafebabel.com before the 12 June elections in Turkey
orhan pamuk, recep tayyip erdogan, politics, orient express, istanbul, turkey
Nobel prize for literature: Horace Engdahl on 'ignorant' American writing
The permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy criticises US writing days before the winner is announced, on 9 October
orhan pamuk, claudio magris, nobel literature prize, horace engdahl, doris lessing, prize, literature
