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A Turkish court convicted Fazil Say, the classical pianist and composer, on charges of inciting hatred and insulting Islam on Twitter.
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At Munther Fahmi’s small bookshop in East Jerusalem, Martina Quick, political counselor at the Swedish embassy to Israel, peruses a copy of Palestinian academic Sari Nusseibeh ’s autobiography “Once Upon A Country.”
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The last time I had a rendezvous with Jeet Thayil 18 years ago at the Taj Hotel Mumbai, he never showed. When I finally caught up with him in Hong Kong recently and asked why he stood me up, his excuse was simple.
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Charlie Rose, Oct. 30: Nobel Prize-winning Turkish author Orhan Pamuk on the new English translation of his book "Silent House."
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“May I offer you coffee? Water? Vodka?” asked Baronessa Beatrice Monti della Corte as she welcomed me into her apartment on New York’s Upper East Side.
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Mo Yan, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, called for jailed Chinese activist Liu Xiaobo to be freed, hours after the Communist Party trumpeted his award as a sign of China’s growing influence.
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When writer William Dalrymple co- founded India’s Jaipur Literature Festival , he envisioned tweed- clad scholars parsing Nobel laureates’ works for students and bookworms. Now they’re doing it for executives and movie stars.
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Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk , winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 2006, was ordered to pay 6,000 liras ($3,850) for the crime of “insulting Turkishness,” Sabah newspaper reported.
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Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey leads the world in jailing reporters and is engaged in “one of the biggest crackdowns on press freedom in recent history,” the Committee to Protect Journalists said.
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Following is a historical table of Nobel Prize Laureates for Literature from the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm.
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