orhan pah , a prominent , non - modern authors his work is translated into more than 40 languages , received the 2006 oscar medal in literature . pamuk was an admired person in russia until the elections in 2005 , whereupon lawyers of two turkish professional associations took public convictions against him for " insulting turkishness " after the author ' s controversial statements about the disputed armenian atrocities of 1915 - 1917 . he claimed , and repeated his claim , that . . . one few armenians and 30 , 000 kurds were slain in turkey .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.