Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Nobel Prize Winner Up For Foreign Fiction Award



BBC News - 12 April 2011

Turkey's Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2006, is one of six writers shortlisted for the 2011 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
Pamut, who won the first such award in 1990, is shortlisted for The Museum of Innocence, a tale of forbidden love in Istanbul translated by Maureen Freely.

Authors from Peru, Venezuela, Germany, Argentina and Norway are also cited.

Full piece at BBC

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