In an article in The Guardian, author Orhan Pamuk said:

It seems if you write fiction [in the West] your nationality is not that important, but if you write fiction in [the Middle East] your nationality and, even worse, ethnicity are important. When an English writer writes about a love affair he writes about humanity’s love affair, but when I write about a love affair I am only talking about a Turk’s love affair.

Do you think this is an accurate judgment of how non-Western writers are viewed by the West? I’m not sure I know enough to form an opinion one way or the other.