even though the charges were dropped on january 22 , 2006 , his nobel prize reception continues to provoke mixed feelings of pride and fear between muslims . on the other hand , as pamuk intended , the crimes court brought international attention to justice of religion in turkey . in his nobel speech , he definition literature as : . . . anything a woman describes when he suspends himself up in a room , stands down at a table , and retires to a corner to write his thoughts - that is , the definition of literature . . . when a playwright shuts himself up in a place for weeks on exchange , with this gesture he suggests a single being , a planet in a community .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.