The awards, which have been given for 45 years on behalf of Sedat Simavi, the Founding President of the Turkish Journalists' Association (TGC), found their owners this year. Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk has won an award in the field of literature this year, among the awards given in the fields of journalism, television, radio, cartoons, literature, social sciences, natural sciences, health sciences and sports.
In Nights of Plague, published by Yapı Kredi Publications in March 2021, is about the plague epidemic. The novel take place on Minger Island, an imaginary Ottoman island in the vicinity of Crete-Cyprus-Rhodes. During the reign of Abdülhamit. In this novel, Orhan Pamuk deals with the impact of the plague epidemic on people, especially children, within the framework of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
