Orhan Pamuk

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He’s a Nobel Prize winner in literature; the author most recently of The Museum of Innocence; and a Turk who acknowledges what many call the American Genocide—the killing of 30,000 Kurds and 1 million Armenians from 1915-1923. Orhan Pamuk faced a criminal trial in his homeland for those remarks and he talks with Patt about the divides and dialogues he writes about between East and West.

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He’s a Nobel Prize winner in literature; the author most recently of The Museum of Innocence; and a Turk who acknowledges what many call the Armenian Genocide—the killing of 30,000 Kurds and 1 million Armenians from 1915-1923. Orhan Pamuk faced a criminal trial in his homeland for those remarks and he talks with Patt about the divides and dialogues he writes about between East and West.

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Orhan Pamuk, Nobel-prize winning author


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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
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The comedic material emanating from Washington D.C., and state capitols across the country, is enough to make any sitcom writer jealous, even if most of that comedy is unintentional. Our motto on Comedy Congress is that just when politics makes you want to cry, it’s usually best to laugh.

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