Pamuk Awarded Medicis Famous French Literature Prize

Famous Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk is awarded Medicis famous French literature prize. The French have awarded the Prize to Orhan Pamuk for his «Snow» novel, of which Kars is the scene. The hero of the novel is a Turkish writer, who has returned to the fatherland after a 12-year exile and who finds himself in the center of political events developing in the small town. It should be reminded that in December O. Pamuk will appear before an Istanbul court on indictment of «damaging Turkish statehood authority.» Earlier Pamuk had stated in an interview with a Swiss newspaper that «one million Armenians and 30 thousand Kurds were killed in Turkey at the beginning of past century.» According to Turkish laws Pamuk may face imprisonment from 6 months to 3 years.