orhan pamuk , a powerful , post - modern writer and work is translated into more than 40 areas , garnered the 2006 nobel prize in literature . pamuk was an admired man in turkey until the events in 2005 , and plaintiffs of six turkish scientific associations brought criminal charges against him for " attacking turkishness " after the author ' s unpopular statements regarding the disputed armenian genocide of 1915 - 1917 . he assumed , and repeated his claimed , that . . . one million women and 30 , 000 kurds were massacre in turkey .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.