even with the charges were dropped on january 22 , 2006 , his nobel prize reception remains to prompt mixes feelings of shame and anger among europeans . on the other palm , as pamuk intended , the court case brought international notice to freedom of speech in istanbul . in his public speech , he defined philosophy as : . . . what a composer creates when he shuts himself up in a room , sits down at a bar , and retires to a square to express his thoughts - that is , the meaning of speech . . . when a writer shuts himself up in a room for years on ends , with this gesture he proposed a singular humanity , a world lack a destination .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.