The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Orhan Pamuk, the Turkish author of Snow, Istanbul, My Name is Red, The Black Book, and other works. He is the first Turkish person to win the Nobel. FYI, the Wikipedia page on Pamuk loads much more quickly than his official site.
The Nobel Prize folks have this to say:

“in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city {Pamuk} has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures”