Orhan Pamuk, Turkish writer and 2006 Nobel Prize winner, has joined the group of honorary doctorates of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (UAM). Orhan Pamuk’s books have been translated into 63 languages and have sold 13 million copies (2 million in Turkey, 11 million abroad).

“Mr Orhan Pamuk’s invitation to our community is a symbolic sealing of the union of two nations. By taking on the role of a penetrating researcher of the complicated relations between East and West as cultural formations, the author thus becomes an ambassador of the centuries-old friendship between Poland and Turkey, the only country that did not recognise the partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the past”, says the rector of Adam Mickiewicz University, Prof. Bogumiła Kaniewska.

“This is a great distinction and honour for me, I am very happy. For me, freedom of speech and freedom of expression are, in a sense, something that enables me to protect what I do”, said the Nobel Prize winner during the ceremony.

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