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Turkish novelist Yasar Kemal, right, shares a smile with German novelist Guenter Grass during the German Book Trade Peace Prize awarding ceremony in Frankfurt, Germany, on Sunday, October 19, 1997. The author, journalist and human rights activist Yasar Kemal, who was born to Kurdish parents in southeastern Turkey in 1923, was awarded the peace prize for his works in which he artfully describes the tribulations of Kurds in southeastern Turkey. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Heribert Proepper)