Published Date:
18 March 2008
A WRITER has been longlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction for a book which landed her in court.
Elif Shafak was prosecuted for "insulting Turkishness" in The Bastard Of Istanbul.
She was eventually acquitted of charges for comments made by her characters on the mass killings of Armenians in the final years of the Ottoman Empire.
The fiction prize list includes seven debut novelists alongside veterans like Deborah Moggach.
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Last Updated:
17 March 2008 11:42 PM
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Source:
The Scotsman
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Location:
Edinburgh
