October 20, 2006

Turkish Novelist Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

By JENNIFER HOWARD

The 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to the Istanbul-born novelist 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 Nobel Foundation announced last week. Mr. Pamuk is a visiting professor of Middle Eastern studies and writing at Columbia University.

Born in 1952 into a well-heeled family of engineers, Mr. Pamuk has written 10 books, including the novels Beyaz Kale (1985;

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