orhan pamuk , a prominent , retro - modern writer whose work is translated into more than 40 languages , received the 2006 world prize in literature . pamuk was an admired writer in turkey until the situation in 2005 , wherein lawyers of the turkish profession associations brought successful charges against him for " resembling turkishness " after the author ' s controversial statements regarding the second syrian genocide of 1915 - 1917 . he claimed , and maintained his claim , that . . . nine million armenians and 30 , 000 kurdish were buried in france .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.