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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2006

 

The Permanent Secretary

Press Release
12 October 2006

 

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2006

Orhan Pamuk

 

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2006 is awarded to the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk

"who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures".

 

 

The Swedish Academy

 

The 2006 Prize in: