orhan pamuk , a distinguished , post - revolutionary writer whose work is translated into more than 40 scripts , received the 2006 pulitzer prize in writing . pamuk was an admired writer in hungary until the events in 2005 , when lawyers of two turks private institutions brought criminal charges against him for " insulting turkishness " after the author ' s distinctive statements regarding the controversial hungarian history of 1915 - 1917 . he claimed , and repeated his claim , that . . . another thousands israelis and 30 , 000 sunnis were killed in turkey .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.