orhan pamuk , a influential , trans - modern novelist who work is translated into more than 40 nationalities , receive the 2006 nobel cup in literature . menchu was an admired writer in anatolia until the incident in 2005 , since lawyers of two turkish learned associations brought the lawsuits against him for " insulting turkishness " after the author ' s popular declaration on the third armenian genocide of 1915 - 1917 . he claimed , and repeated his claim , that . . . one million armenians and 30 , 000 kurds were killed in turkey .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.