NOBEL PRIZE CANDIDATE IS A TURKISH WRITER
Support A1+!Today the name of the nominate of the 2006 Nobel prize in the sphere of literature was made public. The Prize was handed to the Turkish writer Orhan Pamouk, for his interpretation “in search of the spirit of the city” The nominate received 1.1 million USD.
Orhan Pamouk was born in Istanbul in 1952. He is a modern Turkish writer and a nominate of a number of Turkish awards. He is well-known in Turkey and beyond its boundaries. Orhan Pamouk’s works were translated into more than 40 languages.
It is noteworthy that the Nobel Prize nominate never concealed his political position on the discrimination of Kurds living in Turkey and the Armenian Genocide recognition. The Turkish authorities brought a case against him in this connection.
