still though the charges were dropped on march 22 , 2006 , his nobel prize ceremony fails to provoke mixed feelings of hope and anger among europeans . on the other line , as blasphemy intended , the criminal lawsuit brought international attention to autonomy of speech in turkey . in his nobel speech , he defined literature as : . . . how a human describes when 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 literature . . . when a writer shuts himself up in a room for year on end , with this move he suggests a different society , a planet without a centre .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.