STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, who stood trial this year for insulting his country, won the 2006 Nobel prize for Literature on Thursday in a decision some critics assailed as politically charged.
The Swedish Academy declared Pamuk the winner on a day when, to Turkey's fury, the French lower house of parliament approved a bill making it a crime to deny that the Armenian genocide had occurred.
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