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".
Benjamin McLane Spock (May 2, 1903 – March 15, 1998) was an American pediatrician whose book "Baby and Child Care" (1946) is one of the best-sellers of all time.
 The book's premise to mothers is that "you know more than you think you do."
They Burn the Thistles – Ince Memed II (Turkish: "İnce Memed -means; Memed the Thin-" ) is a 1969 novel by Yaşar Kemal.
 It was Kemal's second novel in his İnce Memed tetralogy.
İnce Memed is a series of four epic novels written by the Turkish novelist Yaşar Kemal.
 The novels follow the life of Memed, the only son of a poor widow who escapes from his village in the Anatolian landowners and transforms himself into a legendary, Robin Hood-like figure, championing the landless peasants of Anatolia in their struggle against their corrupt and greedy landowners.
Ağrı Dağı Efsanesi ("The Legend of Mt Ararat") is a 1971 Turkish-language opera by Çetin Işıközlü.
 Mount Ararat is Mount Ağrı, Ağrı Dağı, in Turkish (:wikt:ağrı can also mean "pain", "affliction").
 The plot is after the 1970 epic novel of the same name, "Ağrıdağı Efsanesi", by Yaşar Kemal.
Gökçedam (also known as Hemite) is a village in the central district of Osmaniye Province, Turkey.
 It is the birthplace of Yaşar Kemal.
Mustafa Aydogan (born 1957) is a contemporary Kurdish writer and translator.
 He was born in the district of Kızıltepe in Mardin in southeastern Turkey and relocated to Sweden in 1985.
 He has translated works of renowned authors such as Jack London, Yaşar Kemal, Aziz Nesin and Orhan Pamuk into Kurdish.
Neşet Ertaş (1938 – 25 September 2012) was a Turkish folk music singer, lyricist, modern ashik and virtuoso of the traditional Turkish instrument the bağlama.
 His profession in Turkish is known as "halk ozanı", which literally means "folk bard".
 Yaşar Kemal gave Ertaş his nickname, "Bozkırın Tezenesi" (literally: "Plectrum of the Steppe"), writing it in a book he gave him as a gift.
Memed, My Hawk (Turkish: "İnce Memed, meaning "Memed, the Slim"" ) is a 1955 novel by Yaşar Kemal.
 It was Kemal's debut novel and is the first novel in his İnce Memed tetralogy.
 The novel won the Varlik prize for that year (Turkey's highest literary prize) and earned Kemal a national reputation.
 In 1961, the book was translated into English by Edouard Roditi, thus gaining Kemal his first exposure to English-speaking readers.
Teneke (English: The Drumming-Out ) is a novel by the Turkish author of Kurdish origin Yaşar Kemal, appeared in 1955 by Varlık Yayınları after its first publication in 1954 as an episode in the newspaper "Cumhuriyet".
 It is Kemal's second novel.
 Teneke reached its 23rd edition, published 2004 by Yapı Kredi Yayınları.

Question: Have both Benjamin Spock and Yaşar Kemal been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature? 
Answer: no