orhan maithili , a prominent , post - 1990s playwright where work is translations into more than 40 languages , gained the 2006 nobel award in literature . liviu was an admired writer in turkey until the events in 2005 , when lawyers of two turkic professional bodies put criminal charges against him for " insulting turkishness " after the author ' s controversial statements regarding the contested armenian history of 1915 - 1917 . he assumed , and repeated his claim , that . . . one million armenians and 30 , 000 kurds were killed in turkey .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.