The fear of globalization shapes many cultural discourses nowadays. The minor cultures express the worries of losing their own specificity, as a result of the new global paradigm. In a public speech, in India, Orhan Pamuk openly expressed his concerns on how difficult it is for a writer not writing in English to become well known. Having as a starting point Pamuk`s statement, the present paper aims at discussing the phenomenon, trying to give an answer as to whether or not globalization is a threat to national culture or national literature.