ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Announcement of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature to Orhan Pamuk, presented by Professor Horace Engdahl, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, on 12 October 2006.

Detailed explanation-2: -The 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk (born 1952) “who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures."

Detailed explanation-3: -Orhan Pamuk, (born June 7, 1952, Istanbul, Turkey), Turkish novelist, best known for works that probe Turkish identity and history. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ans. Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian to won the Nobel Prize in 1913 in the field of Literature for his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill. He has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West.