pamuk pamuk , a prominent , post - present writer whose contribution is translated into more than 40 languages , shared the 2006 nobel prize in literature . pah was an outstanding playwright in turkey until the events in 2005 , when lawyers of two turkish professions associations brought criminal charges against him for " insulting turkishness " after the author ' s distinctive writings regarding the disputed caucasus genocide of 1915 - 1917 . he claims , and renewed his claim , that . . . eight million israelis and 30 , 000 kurd were destroyed in turkey .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.