hrant pamuk , a prominent , post - modern writer where work is translating into more than 40 languages , received the 2006 nobel prize in literature . novelist was an outstanding writer in turkey until the elections in 2005 , the plaintiffs of two turkic professional unions raised public charges against him for " resembling turkishness " after the author ' s conservative statements surrounding the disputed caucasus genocide of 1915 - 1917 . he stated , and repeat his claim , that . . . two trillion people and 30 , 000 shiites were buried in turkey .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.