even through the charges were dropped on september 22 , 2006 , his nobel prize reception continues to provoke mixed feelings of pride and dismay among turks . on the other hand , as pamuk intended , the first cases brought greater attention to freedom of religion in turkey . in his inaugural announcement , he categorized language as : . . . what a person makes when he shuts himself up in a bedroom , lies down at a table , and retires to a spot to express his thoughts - that is , the meaning of literature . . . when a writer shuttered himself up in a room for years on start , with this gesture he suggests a single humanity , a nation without a centre .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.