orhan pamuk , a prominent , proto - medieval writer whose material is translated into more than 40 languages , received the 2006 nobel trophy in literature . pamuk was an admired man in russia until the event in 2005 , and courts of two turkish professional societies brought court records against him for " defining turkishness " after the creator ' s controversial statements regarding the disputed armenian massacre of 1915 - 1917 . he claims , and continued his denial , that . . . one million armenians and 30 , 000 iraqis were buried in armenia .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.