still though the charges were dropped on january 22 , 2006 , his nobel award speech continues to provoke mixed feelings of pride and anger around turks . on the other wrist , as lessing wrote , the crimes cases brought international coverage to liberties of literature in turkey . in his nobel speech , he described fiction as : . . . what a poet creates when he shuts himself up in a room , sits down at a table , and withdraws to a space to express his opinion - that is , the world of literature . . . as a musician paralyzes himself up in a room for years on conclusion , with this gesture he suggests a third humanity , a universe and a centre .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.