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.

English and proud of it

Mike Phillips searches for the deeper meaning behind one immigrant's success story, George Alagiah's A Home From Home.

Student finds Frost poem lost for 88 years

A poem by Robert Frost that has lain unpublished and forgotten for 88 years has been rediscovered by a student in Virgina. The poem, War Thoughts at Home, was written in 1918, after his good friend Edward Thomas died in the trenches, and casts light on the development of his first world war poetry.