Who has won the Nobel Prize in Literature?

The 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Turkish writer Ohan Pamuk.

The Swedish Academy of Letters announced at 7 p.m. Beijing time today that it has awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature to Turkish writer Ohan Pamuk. The citation said, "He found a new symbol of cultural conflict and integration in his search for the melancholy soul of his hometown." He will receive $1.37 million in prize money.

Ohan Pamuk's representative works include "My Name is Red", "White Castle", "New Life" and so on.

Pamuk is considered one of the three most important literary figures in contemporary Europe, and is an internationally renowned giant of Turkish literature. Born in Istanbul, he majored in architecture at Istanbul University of Technology.

In 1979 his first work, Governor Seifet and His Sons, won the first prize of Turkey, which was published in 1982 and again in 1983 with the Orhan Kemar Prize.

In 1983, he published a second book, The Silent House, which won the European Discovery Award in 1991 and was published in French in the same year.

In 1985, he published his first historical book, The White Castle, which made him world-famous, and the New York Times book review described him: "A new star is being born in the East - Turkish writer Ohan Pamuk." The book won the 1990 U.S. Foreign Independence Award.

The publication of The Black Book in 1990 was a milestone, making it controversial in Turkish literary circles and popular with general readers. The French edition won the Prize for French Culture. In 1992, he used this ** as a blueprint to complete the movie script of "Hidden Face".

The publication of the book "New Life" in 1997 caused a sensation in Turkey, becoming the fastest selling book in Turkish history.

In 1998, "My Name is Red" was published in the West, which confirmed his status in the international literary scene; In 2003, he won the Dublin Literary Prize, the highest literary prize in the world with a prize of 100,000 euros, and also won the French Literary Prize and the Italian Grenzana Literary Prize. Carver Literary Prize, becoming the master of contemporary literature to win the three major literary awards in Europe. Geographically, Istanbul is the most marginal of Europe, but Pamuk's ** occupies the mainstream position of European literature.

Pamuk's masterpiece "My Name is Red" is written about a case that took place in ancient Istanbul, the court miniature painters died one after another, and behind the death, it was the religion and art of the East that rejected the influence from Venice in order to "defend themselves". ** The intersection of East and West is Pamuk's consistent theme; On top of this is the legendary fate of individuals caught in this whirlpool. In Pamuk's writing, the stubbornness of the East will eventually give way to the toughness of the West.

This is an irreversible historical fate.

In 2002, the author published "Snow".

In 2005, the author's new book "Istanbul" was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In the same year, he won the Peace Prize of the German Book Industry.