Interview with Nobel Literature Prize Winner Orhan Pamuk

Описание: (12 Oct 2006)
1. Tilt down exterior of Fisk Building, location of literary agency for Orhan Pamuk
2. SOUNDBITE (English): Orhan Pamuk, winner of 2006 Nobel Prize for literature:
"My first reaction, 'who is calling at the middle of the night?' And when I heard that I have received the news, I didn't have anytime to think about it because immediately the secretary of the Swedish Academy called me. so it was a sort of joy and 'Oh my God what am I going to do now? How am I going to address all these demands now?'"
3. Author walking through hallway of office
4. SOUNDBITE (English): Orhan Pamuk, winner of 2006 Nobel Prize for literature:
"It's sort of a recognition of my 32 years of writing fiction. I am a storyteller. My whole life is writing, in a solitary way, in a room writing books. I did that all my life."
5. Author speaking with staff
6. SOUNDBITE (English): Orhan Pamuk, winner of 2006 Nobel Prize for literature:
"Turkey did not have Nobel Prize before, so I am very happy and honoured to bring this great prize to my country, to my nation."
7. Author walking around of office
8. SOUNDBITE (English): Orhan Pamuk, winner of 2006 Nobel Prize for literature:
"I want my readers, both in Turkey and outside of Turkey, to know that although this is a great distinction, such an honour that I accept with pleasure, that this will not change my life. I will keep up my habits, my devotion to sitting at the table, like a clerk, and thinking fiction, thinking stories, making fiction and stories believable in readers' imagination. That's what I'm good at."
9. Exterior of Fisk Building
STORYLINE:
Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, whose uncommon lyrical gifts and uncompromising politics have brought him acclaim worldwide and prosecution at home, won the Nobel literature prize on Thursday for his works dealing with the symbols of clashing cultures.
The selection of Pamuk, whose recent trial for "insulting Turkishness" raised concerns about free speech in Turkey, continues a trend among Nobel judges of picking writers in conflict with their own governments.
British playwright Harold Pinter, a strong opponent of his country's involvement in the Iraq war, won last year. Elfriede Jelinek, a longtime critic of Austria's conservative politicians and social class, was the 2004 winner.
Pamuk, currently a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York, told the Associated Press he was very happy but also overwhelmed to receive such an honour.
"When I heard that I have received the news, I didn't have anytime to think about it because immediately the secretary of the Swedish Academy called me, so it was a sort of joy and 'Oh my God what am I going to do now? How am I going to address all the demands now?'" said Pamuk.
Earlier this year, Pamuk had spoken dismissively of the Nobel.
"I really don't like this Nobel literature thing and nonsense," Pamuk had told CNN-Turk television. "I've always said that I am not interested in it, it is not something that is on my mind."
Pamuk, whose novels include "Snow" and "My Name is Red," was charged last year for telling a Swiss newspaper in February 2005 that Turkey was unwilling to deal with two of the most painful episodes in recent Turkish history: the massacre of Armenians during World War I, which Turkey insists was not a planned genocide, and recent guerrilla fighting in Turkey's overwhelmingly Kurdish southeast.
The controversy came at a particularly sensitive time for the overwhelmingly Muslim country. Turkey had recently begun membership talks with the European Union, which has harshly criticised the trial.

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