Pamuk’s Nobel is a family affair
The anger and delight which greeted Orhan Pamuk's Nobel prize in Turkey are no surprise, says Elif Shafak. Turkey has always expected novelists to provide more than words.
A glamour girl’s guide to ‘kicking cancer’s butt’
A New York socialite has used lipstick, high heels and her art to turn a fight with the disease into a book - now to be filmed with star Cate Blanchett.
A Nobel winner for our times
Orhan Pamuk's work inhabits the shifting ground of an increasingly dangerous cultural and religious overlap, says Margaret Atwood.
Nobel prize for hero of liberal Turkey stokes fears of nationalist backlash
· Controversial figure wins 1.1m after troubled year · Prize given for politics, not novels, claim critics
Nobel for a writer, not his politics
Maureen Freely: Last year - not long after Orhan Pamuk was tried for insulting Turkishness - an Istanbul newspaper ran an article entitled 'Who is Maureen Freely?' Their answer was that I was more than just Orhan's friend and translator - I was a shadowy master agent whose sole purpose in life was to win my client a Nobel Prize.
Pamuk’s noble prize
Leader: Orhan Pamuk, the Turkish novelist, is an inspired choice as the winner of this year's Nobel Prize for literature.
Legislating for conflict
Turkish novelist Elif Shafak was put on trial after characters in her latest novel said Armenians were massacred in the first world war. On the day the French parliament has criminalised Armenian genocide denial, she reflects on the dangers of laws which stifle debate.
Rushdie backs Straw in row over Muslim veils
Salman Rushdie, who was forced into hiding after receiving death threats over his novel, The Satanic Verses, criticised the Muslim veil yesterday, saying it 'sucks'.
US free speech row grows as author says Jewish complaints stopped launch party
· Row over postscript on Palestinians' plight
· British-born academic claims lectures cancelled
The tarnished truth beneath Hollywood’s golden age glitter
Salacious lives of former greats are laid bare in a crop of tell-all biographies.
Book reveals old violin customs. But is it a fiddle?
· Doubt cast on history of funerary musical tradition · Writer paid £1,000 for his 'serious artistic statement'