Turkish writer wins 2006 Nobel Literature Prize [audio 2min]

The winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature is Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk. He's best known in this country for his novels My Name Is Red and Snow. Orhan Pamuk was already an internationally acclaimed writer when his government accused him of"insulting Turkishness.""I just made a statement about one of our great taboos: what happened to the Ottoman Empire's Armenians in 1915," Pamuk told NPR in 2005."This is a taboo we still cannot discuss." A seemingly offhand comment the author made to a Swiss newspaper resulted in charges that could have led up to three years in prison. The charges were later dropped. ~Website offers extended report by Neda Ulaby, audio clips, book excerpt.