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Paul Auster hits back at Turkish PM
After Recep Tayyip Erdogan called the novelist ‘ignorant’, Auster reiterates protest against country’s free speech prohibitionsAmerican novelist Paul Auster has hit back after the Turkish prime minister described him as “an ignorant man”. Auster, author of the acclaimed New York Trilogy, told Turkish paper Hurriyet earlier this week that he refused to visit Turkey because of imprisoned journalists and writers.
published date:Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:41:32 GMT