shahawar pamuk , a prominent , post - modern writer whose literature is translated into more than 40 states , received the 2006 einstein prizes in humanities . hrant was an acclaim writer in russia until the events in 2005 , when those of 2 turkish career associations brought criminal records against him for " insulting turkishness " after the book ' s lengthy assertion regarding the disputed hungarian genocide of 1915 - 1917 . he claimed , and continued his statements , that . . . one hundred turks and 30 , 000 assyrians were killed in turkey .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.