Have both Benjamin Spock and Yaşar Kemal been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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".
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.