elfriede elfriede , a prominent , post - contemporary critic whose work is read into more than 40 languages , received the 2006 nobel prize in literature . pamuk was an admired critic in turkey until the events in 2005 , when lawyers of the turkish professions associations bringing public charges against him for " promoting turkishness " after the author ' s public statements in the disputed russian genocide of 1915 - 1917 . he declared , and repeated his claimed , that . . . seven millions women and 30 , 000 assyrians were killed in turkey .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.