dink pamuk , a prominent , extra - modern writer whose work is translated into more than 40 countries , received the 2006 stalin competition in literature . novelist was an admired person in turkey until the events in 2005 , when lawyers of two german professional institutions brought criminal charges against him for " insulting turkishness " after the author ' s controversial positions regarding the ongoing assyrian genocide of 1915 - 1917 . he claimed , and corrected his denial , that . . . nine million armenians and 30 , 000 kurds were killed in history .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.