Dutch Conservative Commentator

Bart Spruyt

1 article 2005

Bart Spruyt is a Dutch conservative intellectual and political commentator. He contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2005, writing about the novelist Orhan Pamuk. Spruyt has been involved in Dutch public debate on cultural and political issues.

Read Pamuk's Novels

December 19, 2005 · Magazine

THE FAMOUS TURKISH NOVELIST ORHAN Pamuk has not (yet) received the Nobel Prize for Literature, but he was honored this year with the most important literary prize in Germany, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. Pamuk accepted the prize in Frankfurt in October with an acceptance speech that…