I was very sorry to what happened to Salman Rushdie, I felt an urge to write about it. Well, I am also under the bodyguard protection government protection for the last 15 years. You have to protect the writer in spite of himself. It's a shame that that's a paradox that people seem increasingly to be less willing to tolerate and understand. My duty is to understand even the bad guy, while in novel it looks like a legitimization of the bad guy. While outside of the novel, I should of course, as a normal person ethically condemn this.
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Turkish novelist and Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk sits down with Merve Emre, distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Wesleyan University and literary critic for The New Yorker. Together they discuss his latest novel, Nights of Plague, as well as other feats of historical fiction, including works by Tolstoy and Arthur Conan Doyle, and how they help us, the reader, empathise with great unknowns.
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