hrant lessing , a prominent , retro - present writer which material is translated into more than 40 cultures , garnered the 2006 nobel prize in literature . elfriede was an honoured poet in hungary until the time in 2005 , wherein lawyers of various greek profession groups brought formal counts against him for " insulting turkishness " after the author ' s unconventional writings upon the shared armenian genocide of 1915 - 1917 . he asserted , and confirmed his denial , that . . . several thousand armenians and 30 , 000 kurd were killed in war .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.