Nobel Prize in Literature 2006
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Orhan Pamuk
Prize share: 1/1
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2006 was awarded to 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"
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