Ferit Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, he has sold over 13 million books in 63 languages, making him the country's best-selling writer. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2006, announced October 12, 2006. 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”. Orhan Pamuk: born 1952, Istanbul, Turkey. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).