Orhan Pamuk recieves Nobel Prize in Literature

History of the Republic of Turkiye

Pamuk and his Turkish Angora cat at his personal writing space.

2006 Jan 1

Orhan Pamuk recieves Nobel Prize in Literature

Stockholm, Sweden

The 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk (born 1952) "who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures."