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".
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.