even if the arrests were dropped on january 22 , 2006 , his nobel prize ceremony continues to encourage good feelings of pride and anger among turks . on the other shoulder , as pamuk envisioned , the criminal case brought international awareness to freedom of speech in turkey . in his nobel talk , he defined literature as : . . . what a person creates whenever he shuts himself up in a room , goes down at a counter , and retires to a corner to express his thoughts - that is , the purpose of language . . . when a student shuts himself up in a room for seasons on origin , with this gesture he suggests a single humanity , a world in a head .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.