orhan pamuk , a prominent , post - classic author whose material is translated into more than 40 languages , got the 2006 un prize in literature . pamuk was an admired man in turkey until the event in 2005 , as lawyers of four turkish scientific associations brought criminal charges against him for " insult turkishness " after the creator ' s contentious statements regarding the disputed armenian genocide of 1915 - 1917 . he claimed , and repeated his claim , that . . . one thousands armenians and 30 , 000 kurdish were killed in hungary .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.