ArtsBeat: Paul Auster Responds After Turkish Prime Minister Calls Him 'an Ignorant Man'
The novelist Paul Auster said in an interview that he would not visit Turkey because of its jailing of writers and journalists, which prompted a mocking response from the Turkish prime minister, Tayyip Erdogan.
From: NYT > Books
Wednesday, 1 February, 2012
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