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ENGDAHL: "YOU HAVE MADE YOUR NATIVE CITY AN INDISPENSABLE LITERARY TERRITORY"
STOCKHOLM - Orhan Pamuk, the renowned Turkish author and the Nobel Laureate in Literature for 2006, received his award at a formal ceremony held at Swedish capital's Stockholm Concert Hall.
During the ceremony, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy and member of the Nobel Committee Horace Engdahl introduced Pamuk to the audience with his detailed speech about the writer, his literary life and works of art.
Praising Pamuk's success in literature, Engdahl said, "He had to be both Easterner - to understand what he was seeing - and Westerner to have the method to portray it".
Before inviting Pamuk to receive his award, "You have made your native city an indispensable literary territory, equal to Dostoyevsky's St. Petersburg, Joyce's Dublin or Proust's Paris - a place where readers from all corners of the world can live another life, just as credible as their own, filled by an alien feeling that they immediately recognise as their own," Engdahl said.
Engdahl then celebrated Pamuk in Turkish and invited him to take his award from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.
King Carl XVI Gustaf presented Pamuk his Nobel diploma, medal and a 10 million-Swedish Krone money prize.
In the award ceremony which hosted nearly 1600 guests and the Swedish royal family, Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry, medicine and economics were also presented.