Controversial Turkish Writer Grabs Literature Nobel

People | October 12, 2006, Thursday // 00:00

Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk has won the 2006 Nobel Prize in literature.

The result was announced by the Swedish Academy on Thursday, confounding pundits who had made Syrian poet Ali Ahmad Said, known as Adonis, favourite.

Like the other Nobels, the Literature Prize comes with a cheque for 10m kronor (GBP 740,000).

The Academy has recognised that in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city, Pamuk has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures.

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