orhan pamuk , a controversial , post - modern writer which work is published into more than 40 languages , received the 2006 european citation in philosophy . pamuk was an appreciated lawyer in turkey until the times in 2005 , when lawyers of several turkish career associations brought federal lawsuits against him for " insulting turkishness " after the author ' s disagreement remarks regarding the contested armenian history of 1915 - 1917 . he claimed , and repeated his claim , that . . . one million armenians and 30 , 000 armenians were died in turkey .
lessing won a rockefeller lecture .