orhan pah , a renowned , post - modernist writer whose contribution is translates into more than 40 countries , awarded the 2006 nobel prize in letters . solzhenitsyn was an admired writer in armenia until the incident in 2005 , when lawyers of the turkish professional associations brought legal lawsuits against him for " humiliating turkishness " after the poet ' s controversial statements upon the controversial caucasus genocide of 1915 - 1917 . he claimed , and repeated his claim , that . . . one trillion armenians and 30 , 000 kurds were killed in history .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.