I can’t think of anyone more deserving of this prize.
As he wrote in the International Herald Tribune earlier this year:
It is because all writers have a deep desire to be authentic that even after all these years I still love to be asked for whom I write. But while a writer’s authenticity does depend on his ability to open his heart to the world in which he lives, it depends just as much on his ability to understand his own changing position in that world.
There is no such thing as an ideal reader, free of narrow-mindedness and unencumbered by social prohibitions or national myths, just as there is no such thing as an ideal novelist. But a novelist’s search for the ideal reader – be he national or international – begins with the novelist’s imagining him into being, and then by writing books with him in mind.
I’ve only read Pamuk’s “Istanbul”, but look forward to reading more of his work.
[via MeFi]
Cyrus Farivar is an Iranian-American freelance technology journalist, radio producer and author, currently living in the city of Bonn, Germany.
His book, "The Internet of Elsewhere" – about the history and effects of the Internet on different countries around the world, including Senegal, Iran, Estonia and South Korea – was published by Rutgers University Press in April 2011. 
Congrats to Pamuk.
But the very same day France passes legislation to make it a crime to deny the existence of the Armenian genocide.
Actually, this shows Turkey is moving toward progress (by dropping charges against Pamuk recently,_ and the French (of all people) are going backwards.
Regardless of genocide claims and by whom, it’s the freedom of expression that’s being curbed here.
The same rights afforded to Armenians to claim genocide are being taken away from those who would deny such a thing.
Actually. Most Turks are upset at the fact that he sold out Turkey with the most sensitive issues in our history.
I for one, dislike him, and will only respect him if he ridicules the latest bill passed in french parliament, now that he has a famous image.
His writings before were excellent however.
This prize was a big scam, a political setup, a Delphi plot well fused and well worked from the beginning to the end. This Nobel Prize given to Orhan Pamuk not to Turkey.It will be the first and last Nobel prize ever given to a Turkish citizen. It will never happen again.