ORHAN PAMUK GIVEN DOCTORATE OF GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY

PanARMENIAN.Net
30.10.2007 14:50 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkey’s Nobel prize winning author Orhan Pamuk has
been presented with a honorary by the Georgetown University. Pamuk,
who won the Nobel prize for literature in 2006, was presented with
his honorary doctorate in social sciences at a ceremony on Monday.

Praising the author’s work, Prof. John DeGioia, the president of
Georgetown University, said that in his novels Pamuk wrote about the
paradoxes between East and West, modern and traditional and the Western
and Islam. His novels contributed to the understanding of humanity,
DeGioia said.

Orhan Pamuk left Turkey after assassination of Agos editor-in-chief
Hrant Dink on January 19, 2007.

Earlier, Pamuk had faced prosecution for "insulting Turkishness"
under article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code. However, the accusations
had been dropped due to the pressure of the international community.