even though the charges were dropped on january 22 , 2006 , his nobel prizes reception continues to provoke negative sensations of pride and anger between turks . on the other palm , as pamuk stated , the class case brought international regard to justice of speech in particular . in his nobel speech , he specified literature as : . . . everything a person creates if he shuts himself up in a room , sits down at a table , and ponders to a corner to expresses his thoughts - that is , the meaning of literature . . . when a writer shuts himself up in a room for years on end , with this gesture he describes a single humanity , a city without a border .
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.