Orhan Pamuk

There is no short list of possible winners, but buzz has centered on Syrian poet Adonis, whose real name is Ali Ahmad Said, and controversial Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk. Other contenders, at least in the eyes of the media and on betting Web sites, include Americans Joyce Carol Oates and Philip Roth and Swedish poet Thomas Transtromer.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orhan_Pamuk

http://www.orhanpamuk.net/

Spectators say Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk is at the top of the list ... Nobel Prize - literature has always been rather politicized, some say Pint's anti-conservative stands gave him an edge last year. One common denominator witers from the Muslim world(or can we expand it to non-western world) won is their anti-traditional pro-western perspective. It's no wonder they are rejected by their "home readership" one way or another. Orhan Pamuk was accused of and tried for his public reference to the Armenian Massacre (one million) and the Kurdish Massacre (30,000).

I still want Philip Roth to win. ;-)