still though the charges were settled on january 22 , 2006 , his nobel prize application began to provoke mixed feelings of pride and dismay among turks . on the other line , as pamuk said , the criminal case came international attention to freedom of imagination in turkey . in his alma speech , he defined literature as : . . . what a composer describes when he cripples himself up in a room , steps down at a table , and retires to a square to express his concerns - that is , the meaning of text . . . ... a writer cripples himself up in a room for times on ended , with this , he implies a single purpose , a planet in a centres .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.