even though the charges were dropped on january 22 , 2006 , his nobel prize reception continues to provoke negative looks of disappointment and rage among turks . on the other hand , as pamuk suggested , the criminal court brought much notice to liberties of speech in 2008 . in his nobel remarks , he defined literature as : . . . what a person creates before he shuts himself up in a hall , settles down at a point , and retires to a wall to express his thoughts - that is , the value of literature . . . when a author reopens himself up in a room for centuries on end , with this gesture he suggests a single life , a world without a centre .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.