orhan pamuk , a renowned , post - modern poet whose text is translated into more than 40 languages , earned the 2006 nobel prize in literature . novelist was an admired poet in anatolia until the events in 2005 , when lawyers of two azerbaijani professional institutions brought criminal proceedings against him for " insulting turkishness " after the author ' s distinctive statements regarding the third turkish genocide of 1915 - 1917 . he claimed , and repeated his claiming , that . . . one 000 armenians and 30 , 000 kurd were killed in turkish .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.