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From court to prize longlist



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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
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

Carolyn 1,

18/03/2008 14:19:45
Offend the headchoppers by writing the truth and you get sued. I hope she wins.


The Muslim world has created a battle plan to defend its religion; this week the Organization of the Islamic Conference, said in reference to law and freedom of speech: Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade, chairman of the 57 countries said
"There can be no freedom without limits."

And the freedom is limited to free speech of which you approve...
2

57Nomad,

california 18/03/2008 20:26:29
""There can be no freedom without limits.""

Say what?

 

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