Nobelova nagrada za književnost ove godine ide Orhanu Pamuku, turskom književniku rođenom 07.06.1952.
Pamuk je trn u oku turskim nacionalistima, a protiv njega je država pokrenula i sudski postupak pod optužbom da je vrijeđao svoju zemlju izjavama o stotinama tisuća pobijenih Kurda i preko milijun Armenaca. To je tabu tema u Turskoj, o tome se ne govori, ali postupak je protiv Pamuka ipak prekinut ove godine.
Orhan pamuk je objavio sedam romana:

Gospodin Jevdet i sinovi (1982)
Kuća tišine (1983)
Bijeli zamak (1991)
Crna knjiga (1994)
Novi život (1997)
Zovem se Crvena (2001)
Snijeg (2004)
Istanbul - grad, sjećanja (2005)

Romani Bijeli zamak, Zovem se Crvena i posljednji Istanbul - grad, sjećanja prevedeni su u Hrvatskoj.

Popis svih dobitnika Nobelove nagrade za književnost:

1901 - Sully Prudhomme (France)
1902 - Theodor Mommsen (Germany)
1903 - Bjornstjerne Bjornson (Norway)
1904 - Frederic Mistral (France) & Jose Echegaray (Spain)
1905 - Henryk Sienkiewicz (Poland)
1906 - Giosue Carducci (Italia)
1907 - Rudyard Kipling (UK)
1908 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken (Germany)
1909 - Selma Lagerlöf (Sweden)
1910 - Paul Heyse (Germany)
1911 - Count Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgium)
1912 - Gerhart Hauptmann (Germany)
1913 - Rabindranath Tagore (India)
1915 - Romain Rolland (France)
1916 - Verner von Heidenstam (Sweden)
1917 - Karl Adolph Gjellerup (Denmark) & Henrik Pontoppidan (Denmark)
1919 - Carl Spitteler (Switzerland)
1920 - Knut Hamsun (Norway)
1921 - Anatole France (France)
1922 - Jacinto Benavente (Spain)
1923 - William Butler Yeats (Ireland)
1924 - Wladyslaw Reymont (Poland)
1925 - George Bernard Shaw (Ireland)
1926 - Grazia Deledda (Italia)
1927 - Henri Bergson (France)
1928 - Sigrid Undset (Norway)
1929 - Thomas Mann (Germany)
1930 - Sinclair Lewis (USA)
1931 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt (Sweden)
1932 - John Galsworthy (UK)
1933 - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (Russia)
1934 - Luigi Pirandello (Italia)
1936 - Eugene O’Neill (USA)
1937 - Roger Martin du Gard (France)
1938 - Pearl Buck (USA)
1939 - Frans Eemil Sillanpää (Finland)
1944 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (Denmark)
1945 - Gabriela Mistral (Chile)
1946 - Hermann Hesse (Switzerland)
1947 - André Gide (France)
1948 - T. S. Eliot (USA)
1949 - William Faulkner (USA)
1950 - Bertrand Russell (UK)
1951 - Pär Lagerkvist (Sweden)
1952 - François Mauriac (France)
1953 - Winston Churchill (UK)
1954 - Ernest Hemingway (USA)
1955 - Halldór Laxness (Iceland)
1956 - Juan Ramón Jiménez (Spain)
1957 - Albert Camus (France)
1958 - Boris Pasternak (Russia)
1959 - Salvatore Quasimodo (Italia)
1960 - Saint-John Perse (France)
1961 - Ivo Andrić (Yugoslavia)
1962 - John Steinbeck (USA)
1963 - Giorgos Seferis (Greece)
1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre (France)
1965 - Michail Sholokhov (Russia)
1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Israel) & Nelly Sachs (Germany)
1967 - Miguel Ángel Asturias (Guatemala)
1968 - Yasunari Kawabata (Japan)
1969 - Samuel Beckett (Ireland)
1970 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Russia)
1971 - Pablo Neruda (Chile)
1972 - Heinrich Böll (Germany)
1973 - Patrick White (Australia)
1974 - Eyvind Johnson (Sweden) & Harry Martinson (Sweden)
1975 - Eugenio Montale (Italia)
1976 - Saul Bellow (USA)
1977 - Vicente Aleixandre (Spain)
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer (USA)
1979 - Odysseas Elytis (Greece)
1980 - Czeslaw Milosz (Poland)
1981 - Elias Canetti (UK)
1982 - Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia)
1983 - William Golding (UK)
1984 - Jaroslav Seifert (Czechoslovakia)
1985 - Claude Simon (France)
1986 - Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka (Nigeria)
1987 - Joseph Brodsky (Russia - USA)
1988 - Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt)
1989 - Camilo José Cela (Spain)
1990 - Octavio Paz (Mexico)
1991 - Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)
1992 - Derek Walcott (St. Lucia)
1993 - Toni Morrison (USA)
1994 - Kenzaburo Oe (Japan)
1995 - Seamus Heaney (Ireland)
1996 - Wislawa Szymborska (Poland)
1997 - Dario Fo (Italia)
1998 - José Saramago (Portugal)
1999 - Günter Grass (Germany)
2000 - Gao Xingjian (China)
2001 - Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (Trinidad and Tobago)
2002 - Imre Kertész (Hungary)
2003 - John Maxwell Coetzee (South Africa)
2004 - Elfriede Jelinek (Austria)
2005 - Harold Pinter (UK)
2006 - Orhan Pamuk (Turkey)