Every year American TIME magazine publishes the list of 100 most influential people in the world. This year 2006 Nobel Prize-winner in literature Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk appeared in the list. Alongside U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, French Presidential candidate Segolen Royal, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, U.S. Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama, Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili also appeared in the world list of the most influential people.