why Pamuk + numbers

[Paul Mackin]

On Oct 12, 2006, at 12:26 PM, pynchonoid wrote:

> While the choice is in line with many of the Nobel
> committee's recent winners (the past two years'
> literary prizes have gone to writers who were also
> conflict in their own governments),

This practice puts certain writers (e.g. a considerable number of   
American and European ones) at a distinct Nobel disadvantage when,
regardless of how much they may be out of sorts  with their  
governments, their governments are not sufficiently out of sorts with  
them.

Merely ignoring them doesn't count in Stockholm.



> Academy head
> Horace Engdahl said Pamuk was selected not for
> political reasons, but because he had "enlarged the
> roots of the contemporary novel" through his links to
> both Western and Eastern culture.
> ....Senior v-p of publicity Paul Bogaards said the
> house is going back to press on all three of Pamuk's
> books it has published in hardcover (reprinting 10,000
> copies each of My Name Is Red and Snow, and 2,500
> copies of Istanbul). Vintage is also reprinting much
> of Pamuk's backlist in paperback, producing 175,000
> copies of the six titles combined (including 100,000
> of Snow).
>
> http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6380388.html?nid=2286
>
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