even with the charges were dropped on july 22 , 2006 , his nobel trophy reception continues to provoke mixed feels of pride and dismay throughout turks . on the other blow , as pamuk intended , the police charge brought greater attention to freedom of speech in turkey . in his prize speech , he defined literature as : . . . what a person creates : he shuts himself up in a room , sits down at a table , and retires to a corner to express his thoughts - that is , the meaning of writing . . . when a playwright destroys himself up in a window for years on start , with this gesture he suggesting a single person , a world without a destination .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.