Yerevan, July 10, Armenpress: Recently the topic of the Armenian Genocide has been actively agitated in Turkish literature. Turkish female author Elif Shafak is one of them, who was awarded with “Knight of Art and Literature” medal for her service in the field of intercultural dialogue and human rights freedom by the French Ambassador in Ankara Loren Bill,  Armenpress reports citing  Turkish newspaper Haberturk.

The French ambassador mentioned that this prize has a great importance in the field of art and literature.

Coming to the movements against Shafak by the Turkish society because of speaking about the Armenian Genocide, as well as the court case against the writer for “insulting the Turkishness”, in his book “Father and the illegal son”,  Bill expressed satisfaction that the case has not been further processed.” It’s so good that those difficult times didn’t break your courage influencing on the subconscious of the Turkish society with your works”, the French ambassador noted. 

In response to the ambassador’s speech Shafak informed that after the publication of the book many readers have phoned her and noted that it gave a great chance to different people to unite around a common hope. Highly appreciating the prize given to her  the Turkish author mentioned that it will be a stimulus for creating such works.

Elif Shafak’s “Father and son” book was published in 2006 and soon became one of the Turkey’s most popular books. The book tells about the two families living in Turkey and the USA, whose stories are crossed.It turns out that they are connected with friendly relations, but because of the cases occurred during the Genocide they appeared in various  places  around the world.