as though the charge were dropped on january 22 , 2006 , his nobel prize presentation continues to provoke mixed feelings of pride and anger among turks . on the other hand , as pamuk proposed , the criminal complaint led universal attention to freedom of writing in turkey . in his keynote speech , he defined literature as : . . . what a person develops when he cleans himself up in a room , comes down at a table , and retires to a table to express his thoughts - that is , the meaning of literature . . . . a playwright paralyzes himself up in a room for years on ended , with this gesture he suggests a single humanity , a world lacking a centre .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.