Have both Benjamin Spock and Yaşar Kemal been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Yaşar Kemal Yaşar Kemal (born Kemal Sadık Gökçeli; 6 October 1923 – 28 February 2015) was a Turkish writer and human rights activist of Kurdish origin. He was one of Turkey's leading writers. He received 38 awards during his lifetime and had been a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature on the strength of "Memed, My Hawk".
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Benjamin Spock Benjamin McLane Spock (May 2, 1903 – March 15, 1998) was an American pediatrician whose book "Baby and Child Care" (1946) is one of the best-sellers of all time. The book's premise to mothers is that "you know more than you think you do."
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Sam Greenlee Samuel Eldred Greenlee, Jr. (July 13, 1930 – May 19, 2014) was an African-American writer, best known for his controversial novel "The Spook Who Sat by the Door", which was first published in London by Allison & Busby in March 1969 (having been rejected by dozens of mainstream publishers), and went on to be chosen as "The Sunday Times" Book of the Year. The novel was subsequently made into the 1973 movie of the same name, directed by Ivan Dixon and co-produced and written by Greenlee, that is now considered a "cult classic".
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Narek Seferjan Narek Seferjan (born August 20, 1974) is a Russian by nationality ethnic Armenian chess Grandmaster, journalist and script writer. Graduated from Russian State University of Physical Culture and Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
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Jhumpa Lahiri Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri (Bengali: ঝুম্পা লাহিড়ী ; born on July 11, 1967) is an American author. Lahiri has been selected as the winner of the 29th PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short story. Lahiri's debut short story collection "Interpreter of Maladies" (1999) won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and her first novel, "The Namesake" (2003), was adapted into the popular film of the same name. She was born Nilanjana Sudeshna but goes by her nickname Jhumpa. Lahiri was a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, appointed by U.S. President Barack Obama. (She resigned from the President's Committee in August, 2017, co-signing a letter of resignation that said in reference to President Trump, "Ignoring your hateful rhetoric would have made us complicit in your words and actions.") Her book "The Lowland", published in 2013, was a nominee for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award for Fiction. Lahiri is currently a professor of creative writing at Princeton University.
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Kopano Matlwa Kopano Matlwa (born 1985) is a South African writer known for her novel "Spilt Milk", which focuses on the South Africa's "Born Free" generation, or those who became adults in the post-Apartheid era and "Coconut", her debut novel, which addresses issues of race, class and colonization in modern Johannesburg. "Coconut" was awarded the European Union Literary Award in 2006/07 and also won the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa in 2010. "Spilt Milk" made the long list for the 2011 Sunday Times Fiction Prize.
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Benjamin Tammuz Benjamin Tammuz (Hebrew: בנימין תמוז‎ ) (July 11, 1919 –July 19, 1989) was an Israeli writer and artist who contributed to Israeli culture in many disciplines, as a novelist, journalist, critic, painter, and sculptor.
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Nobel Prize in Literature Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature (Swedish: "Nobelpriset i litteratur" ) has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" (original Swedish: "den som inom litteraturen har producerat det mest framstående verket i en idealisk riktning"). Though individual works are sometimes cited as being particularly noteworthy, here "work" refers to an author's work as a whole. The Swedish Academy decides who, if anyone, will receive the prize in any given year. The academy announces the name of the chosen laureate in early October. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Peace Prize, and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Noorhaqmal Mohamed Noor Noorhaqmal Mohamed Noor "(b. 1984)" – also known as Aqmal N., is a Singaporean full-time educator, best known as a musician, singer/songwriter, researcher and activist of literary arts. His song, "Warkah Cinta Dunia" (2009) has been distributed worldwide in internet websites such as Amazon, Rhapsody, iTunes, Napster, eMusic, SonicTap, ShockHound, iMesh and Nokia.
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K. Alex Müller Karl Alexander Müller (born April 20, 1927) is a Swiss physicist and Nobel laureate. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1987 with Georg Bednorz for their work in superconductivity in ceramic materials.
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Bialik Prize The Bialik Prize is an annual literary award given by the municipality of Tel Aviv, Israel for significant accomplishments in Hebrew literature. The prize is named in memory of Hayyim Nahman Bialik. There are two separate prizes, one specifically for "Literature", which is in the field of fiction, and the other for "Jewish thought" (חכמת ישראל). The prize was established in January 1933, Bialik's 60th birthday.
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John Chambers (make-up artist) John Chambers (September 12, 1922August 25, 2001) was an American make-up artist and prosthetic makeup expert in both television and film. He received an Academy Honorary Award from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1968. He is best known for creating the pointed ears of Spock in the television series "" (1966), and for his groundbreaking prosthetic make-up work on the "Planet of the Apes" film franchise.
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Poldek Pfefferberg Leopold "Poldek" Pfefferberg (March 20, 1913 – March 9, 2001), also known as Leopold Page, was a Polish-American Holocaust survivor who inspired the Australian writer Thomas Keneally to write the Booker prize-winning novel "Schindler's Ark", which in turn was the basis for Steven Spielberg's film "Schindler's List".
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Yasser (play) Yasser is a play by Moroccan-born Dutch novelist, playwright and journalist Abdelkader Benali. It was written in 2001, and describes the challenges and adversities faced by a Palestinian actor in playing the role of Shylock in Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice".
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Ayman Sikseck Ayman Sikseck (or Ayman Siksik or Ayman Siksek, Arabic: أيمن سكسك‎ ‎ , Hebrew: איימן סיכסק‎ ‎ ; born 1984, Jafa) is an Israeli-Arab author, literary critic and Opinion journalist, who writes in Hebrew. His successful debut novel, "To Jaffa", was published in 2010. He writes for the "Ha'aretz" newspaper. Siksek won the National Library of Israel's 2013/2014 scholarship to encourage young Israeli writers.
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Stephen Karam Stephen Karam is an American playwright and screenwriter. His plays "Sons of the Prophet", a comedy-drama about a Lebanese-American family, and "The Humans" were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2012 and 2016, respectively. "The Humans" won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Play.
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Leonard Boudin Leonard B. Boudin (July 20, 1912 – November 24, 1989) was an American civil liberties attorney and left-wing activist who represented Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame and Dr. Benjamin Spock, the author of "Baby and Child Care", who advocated draft resistance during the Vietnam War. Other opponents of the Vietnam war whom he represented were Julian Bond, William Sloan Coffin, and Philip Berrigan.
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Melvin Jules Bukiet Melvin Jules Bukiet is an author and literary critic. He has written a number of novels, including "Sandman's Dust", "After", "While the Messiah Tarries", "Signs and Wonders", "Strange Fire", and "A Faker's Dozen". He edited the collections "Neurotica: Jewish Writers on Sex", "Nothing Makes You Free", and "Scribblers on the Roof". He won the 1992 Edward Lewis Wallant Award.
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Vedontakal Vrop Vedontakal Vrop (The Secret Unmasked) is an imaginary five-hour-long opera which features in two books by the English novelist Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000), "Rates of Exchange" (1983) and "Why Come to Slaka?" (1986).
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Alan Steinberg Dr. Alan L. Steinberg is an American author. He wrote the libretto for the opera "The Falcon and the Sailor Boy", which was performed at SUNY Potsdam in 2006, starring Stephanie Blythe.
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Mark Finn Mark Finn (born October 1969) is a science fiction and fantasy writer, essayist, and playwright. In 2007 he was nominated for .
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Martin Esslin Martin Julius Esslin OBE (6 June 1918 – 24 February 2002) was a Hungarian-born English producer, dramatist, journalist, adaptor and translator, critic, academic scholar and professor of drama, best known for coining the term "Theatre of the Absurd" in his work of the same name ("Theatre of the Absurd"; 1961). This work has been called "the most influential theatrical text of the 1960s" by some reviewers.